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SubjectRe: [PATCH] max_loop limit
On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 10:40:10AM +0200, Tomas M wrote:
> >here's one. Allocates all the fluff dynamically. It does not create any
> >dev nodes by itself, so you need to do it (à la mdadm)
>
> I'm afraid that this would break a lot of things, for example mount -o
> loop will not work anymore unless you create /dev/loop* manually first,

Yes, "losetup" and "mount -o loop" call stat( /dev/loopN ) when look
for an (un)used loop device.

> am I correct? In this case, this is unusable for many as it is not
> backward compatible with old loop.c, am I correct?

udev ?

Karel

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