devzero@xxxxxx wrote:
No feedback.. so applied (we will see ... :-)
didn`t i really comment on that?
mhh - weird!
Roland, didn't you ask for more than 256 loop devices?
http://www.mail-archive.com/util-linux-ng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg00842.html
oh yes, indeed!
actually i have a system where i use more than 256 loop devices (central cd-rom server) and it`s working very well.
i`m sure i did try the patch once and it seemed to work, but since the cd-rom server was already in production, i was using a less intrusive hack on that to work arond the problem. iirc, the patch didn`t apply to suse util-linux package and i didnŽt want to replace it by the original util-linux package.
will try your patch again very soon and give feedback - thank you for asking!
It sounds like the right thing to do is probably to do something
equivalent to /dev/ptmx for loop devices in the kernel. I had been
planning to do some loop device hacking soonish anyway; I might look
into that at the same time.
-hpa
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