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From: Joe Thornber <thornber@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Possible severe bug in the device mapper?
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 10:03:16 +0000
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On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 10:30 +0100, Andreas Heinlein wrote:
> I will continue looking for help, can you point me in some direction?
> 'losetup' is part of util-linux, but I doubt this has actually
> anything
> to do withit. The loopback device code itself is part of the kernel,
> right? 

Yes, you should try and find someone who admits to being the loopback
device maintainer and try and have a chat with them.  Also it would be
interesting to know how OpenSuse are doing a better job of handling
this.  For instance is it a userland solution or have they changed
something in kernel?

- Joe