Re: [Devil-linux-develop] mount -o loop

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Serge,

there's a new loop-aes patch for the new util-linux:
http://loop-aes.sourceforge.net/updates/util-linux-2.21-20120228.diff.bz2

Maybe this helps

Heiko

Quoting Serge Leschinsky <ser...@gm...>:

> Dominic,
>
> thank you and sorry for the false alarm.
> The problem was narrowed down to util-linux-2.21.
>
> Sincerely,
> Serge
>
>
> On 03/26/2012 03:05 AM, Dominic Raferd wrote:
>> On 26/03/2012 04:01, Serge Leschinsky wrote:
>>> Hi everybody,
>>>
>>> I probably found a problem with loop devices, but would like to  
>>> make sure it's
>>> not the only my problem.
>>>
>>> root@temp:~ # cat /proc/partitions
>>> major minor  #blocks  name
>>>
>>>       8        0   31285248 sda
>>>       8        1     999956 sda1
>>>       8        2     125004 sda2
>>>       8        3   30160243 sda3
>>>       7        0      97036 loop0
>>>     252        0    7340032 dm-0
>>> root@temp:~ # losetup -f
>>> /dev/loop0
>>> root@temp:~ # losetup -a
>>> root@temp:~ #
>>>
>>> I.e. I booted from usb (/dev/loop0 is a system image) and it's listed in
>>> /proc/partitions, but losetup tool doesn't recognize this loop. It  
>>> cause a hang
>>> during the next "mount -o loop".
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Serge
>>
>> It seems to work okay for me (Devil-Linux 1.6.0-RC3 32bit, server
>> version, running from 2-partition USB, booting with Syslinux):
>>
>> root@Samba:~ # cat /proc/partitions
>> major minor  #blocks  name
>>
>>      3       64  156290904 hdb
>> ...
>>      7        0     509118 loop0
>>      9        0  156290816 md0
>>    253        0     262144 dm-0
>>    253        1     573440 dm-1
>>    253        2     524288 dm-2
>>    253        3     131072 dm-3
>>    253        4  152043520 dm-4
>> root@dl1:~ # losetup -f
>> /dev/loop1
>> root@dl1:~ # losetup -a
>> /dev/loop0: [0801]:33 (/cd/bootcd.iso) read-only
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Dominic
>>
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