From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Joe Thornber <thornber@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Possible severe bug in the device mapper?
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 11:20:45 +0000
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On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 10:30 +0100, Andreas Heinlein wrote:
> 2. Create a loopback device with this file (losetup -f
> /media/somedrive/testfile) 

I'm just trying to understand your complaint here.  If device-mapper
wasn't in the equation here, and you were using the loop-back device
directly (i.e. by putting a filesystem on it and mounting).  Then you
pulled the removable device, what happens?

- Joe