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From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
To: Tomas M <tomas@slax.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] max_loop limit
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 01:41:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070328234110.GL27806@petra.dvoda.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4606356A.7070403@slax.org>
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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Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-28 23:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-22 7:57 Tomas M
2007-03-22 11:00 ` markus reichelt
2007-03-22 11:37 ` Tomas M
2007-03-22 13:42 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-03-22 13:42 ` Jens Axboe
2007-03-22 13:52 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-03-22 13:54 ` Jens Axboe
2007-03-22 14:11 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-03-22 15:22 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-03-22 16:09 ` Pádraig Brady
2007-03-28 23:34 ` Karel Zak
[not found] ` <20070322151826.c1421851.dada1@cosmosbay.com>
[not found] ` <20070322142306.GU19922@kernel.dk>
[not found] ` <20070322153603.1f5d442d.dada1@cosmosbay.com>
2007-03-22 15:31 ` max_loop limit - paid job offer Tomas M
2007-03-22 14:33 ` max_loop limit Al Viro
2007-03-22 19:51 ` Olivier Galibert
2007-03-22 14:25 ` Tomas M
2007-03-23 1:34 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-03-23 23:26 ` [PATCH] " Jan Engelhardt
2007-03-25 0:17 ` Ken Chen
2007-03-25 0:29 ` Ken Chen
2007-03-25 8:40 ` Tomas M
2007-03-28 23:41 ` Karel Zak [this message]
2007-03-29 3:54 ` Kyle Moffett
2007-03-29 4:16 ` [PATCH] max_loop limit, t2 Jan Engelhardt
2007-03-29 8:38 ` [PATCH] max_loop limit, loop.c final working version Tomas M
2007-03-29 14:16 ` max_loop limit Bill Davidsen
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