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Error While Mounting an ISO Image in Linux: ioctl: LOOP_SET_FD: Invalid argument 2

I recently received this error while mounting an iso image in a CentOS 5.3 install:
[root@host ~]# mount -t iso9660 -o loop /mnt/glusterfs/ecp-spe-4867.iso /mnt/iso/
ioctl: LOOP_SET_FD: Invalid argument
For more detail:
[root@host ~]# mount -v -t iso9660 -o loop /mnt/glusterfs/ecp-spe-4867.iso /mnt/iso/
mount: going to use the loop device /dev/loop0
ioctl: LOOP_SET_FD: Invalid argument
mount: failed setting up loop device
So what could [...]