linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] max

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Date:	Sun, 25 Mar 2007 10:40:10 +0200
From:	Tomas M <tomas@...x.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] max_loop limit

> here's one. Allocates all the fluff dynamically. It does not create any
> dev nodes by itself, so you need to do it (à la mdadm)

I'm afraid that this would break a lot of things, for example mount -o 
loop will not work anymore unless you create /dev/loop* manually first, 
am I correct? In this case, this is unusable for many as it is not 
backward compatible with old loop.c, am I correct?

Tomas M
slax.org

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