Re: [PATCH] max_loop limit

[Karel Zak]

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 (Ã 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

-- 
 Karel Zak  <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx>
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/