From: Thomas Orgis <thomas-forum@orgis.org>
To: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: losetup -d --force for zombie loop devices?
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 23:02:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120417230207.352c4ca5@orgis.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201204171058.23776.vapier@gentoo.org>
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Am Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:58:22 -0400
schrieb Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>:
> that's LOOP_CLR_FD returning EBUSY. so there isn't much (afaik) that
> userspace can do here. you'd have to start a thread on lkml first to add
> support for lazy/force loop device detaching.
Hm, I feared such ... now the question is if folks would support that
move. Well, one will not find out without asking. Perhaps I should try
to reproduce the scheme with another machine first. Not that this
situation is something that "just does not happen", except in my case.
Alrighty then,
Thomas
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-17 21:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-17 8:03 losetup -d --force for zombie loop devices? Thomas Orgis
2012-04-17 14:58 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-04-17 21:02 ` Thomas Orgis [this message]
2012-04-30 20:03 ` Phillip Susi
2012-04-30 20:07 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-05-01 15:23 ` Phillip Susi
2012-05-03 4:43 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-05-03 14:29 ` Phillip Susi
2013-01-11 23:52 ` Mike Frysinger
2013-01-12 0:54 ` Phillip Susi
2013-01-12 4:52 ` Mike Frysinger
2013-01-12 5:13 ` Phillip Susi
2013-01-12 5:29 ` Mike Frysinger
2013-01-14 8:35 ` Karel Zak
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