Re: bug in 2.6.22-rc2: loop mount limited to one single iso image

From: Ray Lee
Date: Sun May 20 2007 - 02:17:18 EST


On 5/19/07, Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sunday 20 May 2007, Uwe Bugla wrote:
> unfortunately it does not make any difference if I simply rip out the
> changes of patch-2.6.22-rc2 or patch-2.6.21 in connection with patch
> 2.6.22-rc2 regarding module loop.c.

because they are just followup to the real cause. This is causes by commit

commit 73285082745045bcd64333c1fbaa88f8490f2626
Author: Ken Chen <kenchen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue May 8 00:28:20 2007 -0700

remove artificial software max_loop limit


Yeah, that's the only one left. I was hoping it wasn't that one, as it
claimed to have been tested extensively. Guess it wasn't tested with
udev.

Ken? Ball's in your court. As the patch isn't providing a killer
feature for 2.6.22, I'd suggest just reverting it for now until the
issues are ironed out.

Ray
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