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

[Andrey Borzenkov]

On Sunday 20 May 2007, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On 5/20/07, Ray Lee <ray-lk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 5/19/07, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 11:16:59PM -0700, Ray Lee wrote:
> > > > 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.
> > >
> > > Hold it.  The real question here is which logics do we want there.
> > > IOW, and how many device nodes do we want to appear and _when_ do
> > > we want them to appear?
> >
> > The when part is what looks to make it racy. I'm guessing that we're
> > relying on udev to create those loop nodes. If so, I think any scheme
> > that creates more on demand would give transient mount errors while
> > it's waiting on udev to create more nodes.
> >
> > Perhaps if we were to start with 8 loop nodes at init (as we have in
> > 2.6.21), and then always maintain a margin of 8 (or 4, or...) when
> > they start being used or detached?
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> Until the tools can request dynamic loop device allocation from the
> kernel before they want to use the device, you can create as many as
> needed "static" loop* nodes in /lib/udev/devices/, which will be
> copied to /dev/ early on every bootup.
>

Won't these be removed after "losetup -d"?

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