Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 22:18:41 +0200 (MEST)
From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
To: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
cc: Ray Lee <ray-lk@madrabbit.org>, Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>,
       Uwe Bugla <uwe.bugla@gmx.de>, Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug in 2.6.22-rc2: loop mount limited to one single iso image
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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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