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

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Date:	Tue, 22 May 2007 22:18:41 +0200 (MEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
To:	Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>
cc:	Ray Lee <ray-lk@...rabbit.org>,
	Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@...l.ru>,
	Uwe Bugla <uwe.bugla@....de>, Ken Chen <kenchen@...gle.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@...il.com>
Subject: Re: bug in 2.6.22-rc2: loop mount limited to one single iso image


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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