Hi.
Block devices
Subject : loop devices limited to one single device
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/16/229
Submitter : Uwe Bugla <uwe.bugla@xxxxxx>
Handled-By : Ken Chen <kenchen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Patch : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/21/483
Status : patch available
I just noticed that I have this issue; anyway, this patch works fine
for me (with -rc3)
[root@tycho mnt]# mkdir 1 2 3 4 5 6
[root@tycho mnt]# for i in `ls`
do
mount -o loop=/dev/loop$i /home/F-7-i386-DVD.iso /mnt/$i
done
[root@tycho mnt]# df -k
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 4061572 2910092 941408 76% /
/dev 515908 36 515872 1% /dev
none 515908 16 515892 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda4 27617068 7206108 19008084 28% /home
/home/F-7-i386-DVD.iso
2832620 2832620 0 100% /mnt/1
/home/F-7-i386-DVD.iso
2832620 2832620 0 100% /mnt/2
/home/F-7-i386-DVD.iso
2832620 2832620 0 100% /mnt/3
/home/F-7-i386-DVD.iso
2832620 2832620 0 100% /mnt/4
/home/F-7-i386-DVD.iso
2832620 2832620 0 100% /mnt/5
/home/F-7-i386-DVD.iso
2832620 2832620 0 100% /mnt/6
Regards,
Fabio
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