On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 10:12:51AM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > On 08/18/2017 10:05 AM, Omar Sandoval wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 09:56:26AM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > >> On 08/18/2017 09:47 AM, Omar Sandoval wrote: > [ .. ] > >>> > >>> I actually checked losetup, it works just fine with LO_FLAGS_BLOCKSIZE > >>> always set and lo_init[0] always filled in. > >>> > >> The original argument I had with the util-linux maintainer did not > >> revolve so much around technical details :-) > > > > Karel, what were your concerns here? > > > It wasn't Karel, it was our guy. > Doesn't make it any better, though... I just went through the code and util-linux doesn't mention lo_init at all except for the definition, and everywhere it's using lo_flags would work fine with the behavior I implemented here. Unless there's an actual issue someone can point out, I see no reason to not do it this way.