Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760160AbXETQPA (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 May 2007 12:15:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758075AbXETQOw (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 May 2007 12:14:52 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.168]:59513 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757346AbXETQOv (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 May 2007 12:14:51 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=pS5f40EBxSIr0veaxZJWgNMIa6phku3KM2bZ6x5h3Z9+JDX39lxUBprRxj0BtaKV4tADW8Coz5A8YMYsBBCMW+YRqk6wREw1I7GAAqWFnt2BQRJW9eRRRWydVpvLQ4Am1jJvwvIm46NHJEhc3MW/otbpDWC3MAgGnEnRki9cCz0= Message-ID: <2c0942db0705200914x3e418a49u2c0b80e478e23be@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 09:14:49 -0700 From: "Ray Lee" To: "Andrey Borzenkov" Subject: Re: bug in 2.6.22-rc2: loop mount limited to one single iso image Cc: "Al Viro" , "Uwe Bugla" , "Ken Chen" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Andrew Morton" , "Michal Piotrowski" In-Reply-To: <200705202009.39291.arvidjaar@mail.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <464F42F3.1080300@madrabbit.org> <20070520062816.GA4095@ftp.linux.org.uk> <2c0942db0705200822j685ec3b2x399a080622b6fc05@mail.gmail.com> <200705202009.39291.arvidjaar@mail.ru> X-Google-Sender-Auth: a1f080ecd9b971dc Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 872 Lines: 19 On 5/20/07, Andrey Borzenkov 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 :-). - 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/