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DateTue, 13 May 2008 10:10:35 -0700
From"H. Peter Anvin" <>
SubjectRe: [BUG] remount ro on loopback mount leaves unmountable filesystem behind
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 10:07:10PM +1000, David Chinner wrote:
>> Anyway, I'll hard code loop device numbers into the script so
>> I can just forget about this problem. Thanks, Christoph.
> 
> hardcoding them is a little dangerous because a system might aswell
> have them in use already, e.g. for CD images.  Just use losetup -f to
> find the first free one and keep it in a shell variable.

losetup -f is racy, too.  losetup -sf is safe, however.

	-hpa


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