loop device

[Scott James Remnant]

On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 05:57 -0400, Pete Graner wrote:

> Eugene Gorodinsky wrote:
> > Sorry, I meant nobody had stated the reasons for compiling the loop
> > device into the kernel. Or was that the reason to compile it in rather
> > than the reason to not compile it in?
> 
> It was done primarily as an effort to link in all common modules across 
> all kernels. It was perhaps an oversight since increasing loop devs is a 
> real need.
> 
Untrue.

It's compiled in because we have no method for on-demand loading of this
module.  If you don't compile it in, loop devices will fail to mount
unless you run "modprobe loop" somewhere.


I don't see any reason why this module cannot expose its configuration
parameter in /sys to be adjustable at run time.  Better still, source
the LKML patches to make loop devices simply dynamic (so we don't always
have a fixed number).

Scott
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Scott James Remnant
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