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

[Ray Lee]

On 5/20/07, Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sunday 20 May 2007, Ray Lee wrote:
> > 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.
>
> this seems to work with /dev/pts though. May be, by accident?

Or maybe the kernel puts the requesting process to sleep until the
udev userspace helper returns? I don't know.

I've run out of useful contributions to this thread, so I think I'll
shut up now :-).
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