From: Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>
To: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Cc: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: losetup: failed to setup loop device > 1
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 22:59:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54330294.1090908@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141006174041.GA8057@x2.net.home>
On 10/06/2014 07:40 PM, Karel Zak wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 06:35:20PM +0200, Francis Moreau wrote:
>> One last details is that the system uses pretty old stuff: kernel
>> 3.4.50, util-linux 2.21.1.
>
> $ git log --oneline v2.21.. -- lib/loopdev.c sys-utils/losetup.c | wc -l
> 62
>
>> Could anybody give me some help ?
>
> update, this is upstream mailing list I have doubts anyone is ready
> to help you with code released 2 years ago.
well it looks like more a kernel issue since the sequence of syscalls
done by losetup looks correct. Maybe someone here already encountered
this...
I just found that loop module was loaded with max_part=16 and
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT=8. If max_part is set to 0 then the issue
is gone :-/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-06 20:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-06 16:35 losetup: failed to setup loop device > 1 Francis Moreau
2014-10-06 17:40 ` Karel Zak
2014-10-06 20:59 ` Francis Moreau [this message]
2014-10-07 9:17 ` Karel Zak
2014-10-07 9:32 ` Francis Moreau
2014-10-08 8:57 ` Francis Moreau
2014-10-08 9:44 ` Karel Zak
2014-10-08 10:05 ` Francis Moreau
2014-10-08 10:58 ` Francis Moreau
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