Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Mar 2007 01:41:10 +0200 | From | Karel Zak <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] max_loop limit |
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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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