Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753863AbXFOLTq (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 07:19:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751360AbXFOLTj (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 07:19:39 -0400 Received: from proxima.lp0.eu ([85.158.45.36]:38394 "EHLO proxima.lp0.eu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751793AbXFOLTj (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 07:19:39 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=exim; d=fire.lp0.eu; h=Received:Received:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References:Date:Subject:From:To:Cc:User-Agent:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-Priority:Importance; b=Ejr5OxruS1WAWmjcP9odmqjOUi+zMfm7Sn1fEgYKRY6aY7sDDRq3BFxcbKlNGP4X4ps1F4DNc/jvzjuGXJpLldn6NXWR2eUnSt7UwyQS6HpswQV2/Qy5vbKplJJXPnbi; Message-ID: <42688.simon.1181906375@5ec7c279.invalid> In-Reply-To: References: <20070614125224.GA4155@tatooine.rebelbase.local> Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:19:35 +0100 Subject: Re: /dev/loop* devices not appearing in /dev (at least since 2.6.22-rc3*) From: "Simon Arlott" To: "Jan Engelhardt" Cc: "markus reichelt" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.9a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 717 Lines: 21 On Fri, June 15, 2007 10:01, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Jun 14 2007 14:52, markus reichelt wrote: >>* Matthew wrote: >> >>> I read that now loop devices are being created on demand, which >>> obviously (still) not works >> >>yes, someone thought this was a good idea :( > > It *is* a good idea. MD works that way too. There's a patch around somewhere to create at least 8 devices, I don't know why it's not in Linus' tree yet... -- Simon Arlott - 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/