Re: losetup: failed to setup loop device > 1

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On 10/06/2014 07:40 PM, Karel Zak wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 06:35:20PM +0200, Francis Moreau wrote:
>> One last details is that the system uses pretty old stuff: kernel
>> 3.4.50, util-linux 2.21.1.
> 
> $ git log --oneline v2.21.. -- lib/loopdev.c sys-utils/losetup.c | wc -l
> 62
> 
>> Could anybody give me some help ?
> 
> update, this is upstream mailing list I have doubts anyone is ready
> to help you with code released 2 years ago.

well it looks like more a kernel issue since the sequence of syscalls
done by losetup looks correct. Maybe someone here already encountered
this...

I just found that loop module was loaded with max_part=16 and
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT=8. If max_part is set to 0 then the issue
is gone :-/


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