On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 07:39:10PM -0400, Dave Reisner wrote: > I have a bug report that points out that v2.23 has disallowed losetup of > a block device with an offset: > > https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/35193 > > As I also note in the bug report, I've bisected this to commit 293714c0d15. > > I'm not clear on what the proper fix is here -- "expected_size" is set > to 0 since the fstat call is performed on a special file which has a 0 > size. Is the right thing to do simply return 0 if the size of the > "backing file" is 0? The right thing is to use size of the block device if the backing file is a block device. Fixed. Git pull. All this is workaround for kernel bug (already fixed in v3.9). I hope that one day we will use KERNEL_VERSION macro to exclude all this painful thing :-) Thanks! Karel -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> http://karelzak.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
