Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2] loop: Better discard for block devices | From | Bart Van Assche <> | Date | Tue, 30 Oct 2018 16:50:43 -0700 |
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On Tue, 2018-10-30 at 16:06 -0700, Evan Green wrote: > This series addresses some errors seen when using the loop > device directly backed by a block device. The first change plumbs > out the correct error message, and the second change prevents the > error from occurring in many cases.
Hi Evan,
Can you provide some information about the use case? Why do you think that it would be useful to support backing a loop device by a block device? Why to use the loop driver instead of dm-linear for this use case?
Thanks,
Bart.
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