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From: Paolo Ornati <ornati@fastwebnet.it>
To: "Simon Arlott" <simon@fire.lp0.eu>
Cc: "Jan Engelhardt" <jengelh@computergmbh.de>,
	"markus reichelt" <ml@mareichelt.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: /dev/loop* devices not appearing in /dev (at least since      2.6.22-rc3*)
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:19:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070615191922.4dbaba84@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42688.simon.1181906375@5ec7c279.invalid>

On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:19:35 +0100
"Simon Arlott" <simon@fire.lp0.eu> wrote:

> > 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...

It is! It's just that it was applied after -rc4...

commit a47653fc2643cf61bcabba8c9ff5c45517c089ba
Author: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com>
Date:   Fri Jun 8 13:46:44 2007 -0700

    loop: preallocate eight loop devices

[...]

-- 
	Paolo Ornati
	Linux 2.6.22-rc4-cfs-v16-g47932c49 on x86_64

      reply	other threads:[~2007-06-15 17:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-14 11:37 /dev/loop* devices not appearing in /dev (at least since 2.6.22-rc3*) Matthew
2007-06-14 12:52 ` Paolo Ornati
2007-06-14 14:10   ` Matthew
2007-06-14 15:22     ` Paolo Ornati
2007-06-14 15:44       ` markus reichelt
2007-06-14 16:32         ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2007-06-15  9:00           ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-06-14 12:52 ` markus reichelt
2007-06-15  9:01   ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-06-15 11:19     ` Simon Arlott
2007-06-15 17:19       ` Paolo Ornati [this message]

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