Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759618AbXETQJv (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 May 2007 12:09:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757346AbXETQJo (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 May 2007 12:09:44 -0400 Received: from mx34.mail.ru ([194.67.23.200]:32189 "EHLO mx27.mail.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756518AbXETQJn (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 May 2007 12:09:43 -0400 From: Andrey Borzenkov To: "Ray Lee" Subject: Re: bug in 2.6.22-rc2: loop mount limited to one single iso image Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 20:09:38 +0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: "Al Viro" , "Uwe Bugla" , "Ken Chen" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Andrew Morton" , "Michal Piotrowski" References: <464F42F3.1080300@madrabbit.org> <20070520062816.GA4095@ftp.linux.org.uk> <2c0942db0705200822j685ec3b2x399a080622b6fc05@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2c0942db0705200822j685ec3b2x399a080622b6fc05@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1242151.tPIGQWa9H6"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200705202009.39291.arvidjaar@mail.ru> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1499 Lines: 42 --nextPart1242151.tPIGQWa9H6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday 20 May 2007, Ray Lee wrote: > On 5/19/07, 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? > > 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? --nextPart1242151.tPIGQWa9H6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBGUHLDR6LMutpd94wRAu2fAKCeDhjHti7u4282DXag+uoRz8H5TgCgjTAM lQlA+0jp/sRAkL77doQxfMg= =Pw7p -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1242151.tPIGQWa9H6-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/