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Date:	Sun, 20 May 2007 18:23:44 +0200
From:	Andreas Schwab <schwab@...e.de>
To:	Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@...l.ru>
Cc:	"Kay Sievers" <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	"Ray Lee" <ray-lk@...rabbit.org>,
	"Al Viro" <viro@....linux.org.uk>, "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

Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@...l.ru> writes:

> On Sunday 20 May 2007, Kay Sievers wrote:
>>
>> Until the tools can request dynamic loop device allocation from the
>> kernel before they want to use the device, you can create as many as
>> needed "static" loop* nodes in /lib/udev/devices/, which will be
>> copied to /dev/ early on every bootup.
>>
>
> Won't these be removed after "losetup -d"?

No, only when you unload the loop module (and then only those that were
ever used).

Andreas.

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