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From: Al Viro

Subject: Re: bug in 2.6.22-rc2: loop mount limited to one single iso image

Date: Monday, May 21, 2007 - 5:13 pm

On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 01:10:38AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
quoted text> On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 09:11:02AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Sun, 20 May 2007, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > > 
> > > Right, providing "preallocated" devices, 8 or the number given in
> > > max_loop, sounds like the best option until the tools can handle that.
> > 
> > Yes. Can somebody who actually _uses_ loop send a tested patch, please?
> 
> FWIW, I do and I have tested it; what I did *not* do is using a testbox
> with dynamic /dev for testing.  Mea culpa...
> 
> AFAICS, patch that went to akpm (preallocate max_loop instances) is OK.

... except that it needs to do cleanup on failure in loop_init().
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Re: bug in 2.6.22-rc2: loop mount limited to one single is ..., Ray Lee, (Sun May 20, 8:26 am)

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Re: bug in 2.6.22-rc2: loop mount limited to one single is ..., Andrey Borzenkov, (Sun May 20, 9:02 am)

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Re: bug in 2.6.22-rc2: loop mount limited to one single is ..., Andreas Schwab, (Sun May 20, 9:23 am)

Re: bug in 2.6.22-rc2: loop mount limited to one single is ..., Uwe Bugla, (Sun May 20, 9:29 am)

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Re: bug in 2.6.22-rc2: loop mount limited to one single is ..., Ray Lee, (Mon May 21, 9:35 am)

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