From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
bernie@codewiz.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow auto-destruction of loop devices.
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:17:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071030131729.22f2b4b0.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1193775171.2651.46.camel@shinybook.infradead.org>
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:12:51 -0400
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 13:01 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Why do we want to do this?
>
> In general, so that we can automatically allocate loop devices (as with
> losetup -f) and have them disappear when we're done with them.
>
> In particular, right now, so that we can stop relying on the hackish
> special-case in umount(8) which kills off loop devices which were set up
> by 'mount -oloop'. That means we can stop putting crap in /etc/mtab
> which doesn't belong there, which means it can be a symlink
> to /proc/mounts, which means yet another writable file on the root
> filesystem is eliminated and the 'stateless' folks get happier... and
> OLPC trac #356 can be closed.
>
> The mount(8) side of that is at
> http://marc.info/?l=util-linux-ng&m=119362955431694&w=2
ooh, I spy a changelog. Thanks.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-30 20:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-28 23:08 David Woodhouse
2007-10-30 20:01 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-30 20:05 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-10-30 20:12 ` David Woodhouse
2007-10-30 20:17 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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