Problems with cloop and customized kernel/fs

**londi** · 07-20-2003, 03:28 PM

Hello,

I've made new kernel and root filesystem, made all changes needed to linuxrc, new cloop module, customized miniroot fs, and while

insmod -f /modules/cloop.o file=/cdrom/boot_fs/boot_fs

(while boot_fs being the compressed filesystem)

I get:

cloop: Initializing cloop v1.08
cloop: /cdrom/boot_fs/boot_fs: 2860 blocks, 65536 bytes/block, largest block is 1093697120 bytes.
cloop: out of memory for compressed buffer 1093697120

Any ideas? It seems that with original knoppix kernel same boot_fs works just fine.

Regards,

Robert

**londi** · 07-21-2003, 01:44 PM

Well, I seem to resolved the problem, compressing same filesystem one more time helped, although I have no idea why it wouldnt work with old compression (parameters for mkisofs and filesystem was the same).

Robert

**fabriloup** · 07-30-2003, 10:45 AM

Hello,

when I try to mount the compressed KNOPPIX image with cloop, I get the following error (taken from syslog):

The command I use is: insmod cloop file=/mnt/hdf1/wolf/KNOPPIX

Jul 30 11:39:20 box kernel: cloop: Welcome to cloop v0.68
Jul 30 11:39:20 box kernel: cloop: /mnt/hdf1/wolf/KNOPPIX: 29299 blocks, 65536 bytes/block, largest block is 4294808060 bytes.
Jul 30 11:39:20 box kernel: cloop: out of memory for compressed buffer 4294808060

Could you please detail the commands you entered to solve the problem ?

Thanks for your help.

**covici** · 07-30-2003, 12:13 PM

You need the newest cloop --1.0-2 from the sources link on the knoppix english page -- then it will work. I found this out the hard way.

Originally Posted by fabriloup

Hello,

when I try to mount the compressed KNOPPIX image with cloop, I get the following error (taken from syslog):

The command I use is: insmod cloop file=/mnt/hdf1/wolf/KNOPPIX

Jul 30 11:39:20 box kernel: cloop: Welcome to cloop v0.68
Jul 30 11:39:20 box kernel: cloop: /mnt/hdf1/wolf/KNOPPIX: 29299 blocks, 65536 bytes/block, largest block is 4294808060 bytes.
Jul 30 11:39:20 box kernel: cloop: out of memory for compressed buffer 4294808060

Could you please detail the commands you entered to solve the problem ?

Thanks for your help.

**fabriloup** · 07-31-2003, 09:45 AM

Thanks. I could compile the cloop module, mount the KNOPPIX image. now when I try to copy the files to my work directory, it starts copying and then the process hangs in the middle. I can't even kill the process.

Any idea on how to solve this ?

Cheers.