loop device

[Eugene Gorodinsky]

Don't you have to run losetup at some point during boot anyway to be
able to mount loop devices?

2009/9/7 Scott James Remnant <scott at canonical.com>:
> 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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