Re: [PATCH] the dm-loop target

Christoph Hellwig
2025-03-04T13:50:47Z

On Tue, Mar 04, 2025 at 12:18:04PM +0100, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> I'm not trying to break existing loop.

You are f***cking breaking file system semantics. Stop it now.

> The Android people concluded that loop is too slow and rather than using
> loop they want to map a file using a table with dm-linear targets over the
> image of the host filesystem. So, they are already doing what dm-loop is
> doing.

I've never seen bug reports from " The Android people". But maybe they
just need to stop pointlessly using loop devices?