Re: RFC - named loop devices...

[Frank Schaefer]

On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 02:55, Ian Molton wrote:
> I havent thought about this too much, but...
> 
> When /etc/mtab is a symlink to /proc/mounts the umount command will fail
> to unmount loopback mounted filesystems properly.
> 
> I was wondering if a solution to this would be to introduce 'named'
> loopback devices.
> 
> with named loop devices, umount will then know that mount was the
> creator of a loopback device that it mounted, and can safely destroy it.
> 
> at present, mounting and unmounting disc images causes one to run out of
> loopback devices rather rapidly.
> 
> If I were to knock up a patch to implement named loop devices, would it
> stand a chance of being accepted?
> 
> also, how should this work? should the name be that of the creating
> process or should it just be a field that the creator can fill in as it
> pleases?

What about losetup?

Regards
Frank