Messages in this thread |  | | | From | (Matthias Urlichs) | | Subject | Re: Irritating ext2fs corruption [solved] | | Date | 16 Aug 1998 18:44:29 +0200 |
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Jakob Borg <jb@k2.lund.se> writes: > > I did a few more tests and realized that I had assumed the loop device > was unregistered when the (loop-mounted) filesystem was unounted > (shouldn't it perhaps be? obviously not). When unregistered, the file > dissapears nicely. > Bah. After I had been bitten by this a few times too often, I changed mount and the loopback driver to auto-disassociate the loopback interface on last close (via an ioctl which sets a flag).
Patches on request. Linus: Would it make sense to change the kernel for 2.2 to do this? Advantage: unmount(8) doesn't need to know about loopback.
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