* losetup -f not working on SLES10
@ 2009-12-11 10:03 Andre Przywara
2009-12-11 10:29 ` Keir Fraser
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From: Andre Przywara @ 2009-12-11 10:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: gary.grebus; +Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Keir Fraser
Hi,
c/s 20404 (http://xenbits.xen.org/xen-unstable.hg?rev/830bda7a9c75)
introduces "losetup -f" to the hotplug scripts to find a free loop
device. This option does not exists on SLES10, so Xen unstable does not
work any longer on top on SLES10. I see that using -f is much smarter
than the old-fashioned way, but shouldn't we keep compatibility with
older Dom0 userlands?
Is a patch providing fallback to the old code an option?
Regards,
Andre.
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* Re: losetup -f not working on SLES10
2009-12-11 10:03 losetup -f not working on SLES10 Andre Przywara
@ 2009-12-11 10:29 ` Keir Fraser
2009-12-11 15:03 ` Gary Grebus
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Keir Fraser @ 2009-12-11 10:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andre Przywara, gary.grebus@oracle.com; +Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Fine by me.
K.
On 11/12/2009 10:03, "Andre Przywara" <andre.przywara@amd.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> c/s 20404 (http://xenbits.xen.org/xen-unstable.hg?rev/830bda7a9c75)
> introduces "losetup -f" to the hotplug scripts to find a free loop
> device. This option does not exists on SLES10, so Xen unstable does not
> work any longer on top on SLES10. I see that using -f is much smarter
> than the old-fashioned way, but shouldn't we keep compatibility with
> older Dom0 userlands?
> Is a patch providing fallback to the old code an option?
>
> Regards,
> Andre.
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* Re: losetup -f not working on SLES10
2009-12-11 10:29 ` Keir Fraser
@ 2009-12-11 15:03 ` Gary Grebus
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Gary Grebus @ 2009-12-11 15:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Keir Fraser; +Cc: Andre Przywara, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Keir Fraser wrote:
> Fine by me.
>
> K.
>
> On 11/12/2009 10:03, "Andre Przywara" <andre.przywara@amd.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> c/s 20404 (http://xenbits.xen.org/xen-unstable.hg?rev/830bda7a9c75)
>> introduces "losetup -f" to the hotplug scripts to find a free loop
>> device. This option does not exists on SLES10, so Xen unstable does not
>> work any longer on top on SLES10. I see that using -f is much smarter
>> than the old-fashioned way, but shouldn't we keep compatibility with
>> older Dom0 userlands?
Ooops. I thought I checked that SLES10 had "-f", but apparently it was
openSUSE.
>> Is a patch providing fallback to the old code an option?
Or maybe cleaner to just scan the output of "losetup -a" for
the first unassigned device? I can work up a patch.
/gary
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