From: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>
To: "Ray Lee" <ray-lk@madrabbit.org>
Cc: "Al Viro" <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>, "Uwe Bugla" <uwe.bugla@gmx.de>,
"Ken Chen" <kenchen@google.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Michal Piotrowski" <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug in 2.6.22-rc2: loop mount limited to one single iso image
Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 20:09:38 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200705202009.39291.arvidjaar@mail.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2c0942db0705200822j685ec3b2x399a080622b6fc05@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sunday 20 May 2007, Ray Lee wrote:
> On 5/19/07, Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> > On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 11:16:59PM -0700, Ray Lee wrote:
> > > Ken? Ball's in your court. As the patch isn't providing a killer
> > > feature for 2.6.22, I'd suggest just reverting it for now until the
> > > issues are ironed out.
> >
> > Hold it. The real question here is which logics do we want there.
> > IOW, and how many device nodes do we want to appear and _when_ do
> > we want them to appear?
>
> The when part is what looks to make it racy. I'm guessing that we're
> relying on udev to create those loop nodes. If so, I think any scheme
> that creates more on demand would give transient mount errors while
> it's waiting on udev to create more nodes.
>
this seems to work with /dev/pts though. May be, by accident?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-20 16:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-19 18:33 bug in 2.6.22-rc2: loop mount limited to one single iso image Ray Lee
2007-05-19 19:17 ` Andrey Borzenkov
[not found] ` <200705200124.13026.uwe.bugla@gmx.de>
2007-05-20 4:45 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2007-05-20 6:16 ` Ray Lee
2007-05-20 6:28 ` Al Viro
2007-05-20 6:58 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2007-05-20 14:52 ` Uwe Bugla
2007-05-20 15:26 ` Ray Lee
2007-05-20 15:22 ` Ray Lee
2007-05-20 15:54 ` Kay Sievers
2007-05-20 16:02 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2007-05-20 16:23 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-05-20 16:10 ` Ray Lee
2007-05-20 16:16 ` Kay Sievers
2007-05-20 16:29 ` Uwe Bugla
2007-05-20 19:53 ` Michael Mauch
2007-05-21 16:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-21 16:27 ` Ken Chen
2007-05-21 16:35 ` Ray Lee
2007-05-21 16:37 ` Ken Chen
2007-05-21 16:50 ` Uwe Bugla
2007-05-21 17:11 ` Kay Sievers
2007-05-21 17:51 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2007-05-21 17:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-21 20:48 ` Ken Chen
2007-05-21 21:20 ` Uwe Bugla
2007-05-21 22:04 ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-22 0:10 ` Al Viro
2007-05-22 0:13 ` Al Viro
2007-05-20 16:09 ` Andrey Borzenkov [this message]
2007-05-20 16:14 ` Ray Lee
2007-05-22 20:18 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-22 21:35 ` Uwe Bugla
2007-05-21 6:08 ` Ken Chen
2007-05-21 6:40 ` Ray Lee
2007-05-21 7:59 ` Uwe Bugla
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2007-05-19 13:53 Uwe Bugla
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