Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:52:06 +0200 | From | Paolo Ornati <> | Subject | Re: /dev/loop* devices not appearing in /dev (at least since 2.6.22-rc3*) |
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On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:37:32 +0200 Matthew <jackdachef@gmail.com> wrote:
> now back to topic: > > /dev/loop* seems to be broken since (at least) 2.6.22-rc3, since that > was the first kernel I tried of the 2.6.22-rc* series > > ls -l /dev/ | grep loop > > shows no output
Yes, now the "loop" devices are dynamically allocated.... a patch to provide the 8 "static allocated" loop devices is already in current git (post -rc4, will be in -rc5).
commit a47653fc2643cf61bcabba8c9ff5c45517c089ba Author: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com> Date: Fri Jun 8 13:46:44 2007 -0700
loop: preallocate eight loop devices
The kernel on-demand loop device instantiation breaks several user space tools as the tools are not ready to cope with the "on-demand feature". Fix it by instantiate default 8 loop devices and also reinstate max_loop module parameter.
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