On Tue, 2018-10-30 at 16:06 -0700, Evan Green wrote: +AD4 This series addresses some errors seen when using the loop +AD4 device directly backed by a block device. The first change plumbs +AD4 out the correct error message, and the second change prevents the +AD4 error from occurring in many cases. Hi Evan, Can you provide some information about the use case? Why do you think that it would be useful to support backing a loop device by a block device? Why to use the loop driver instead of dm-linear for this use case? Thanks, Bart.