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

[Jan Engelhardt]

On May 20 2007 07:28, Al Viro 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?

"min_loop" (max_loop?) nodes should appear (but without a backing
gendisk), and when they are opened, they should get their gendisk
allocated and assigned.



	Jan
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