On Sunday 20 May 2007, Ray Lee wrote:
> On 5/19/07, Al Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 11:16:59PM -0700, Ray Lee wrote:
> > > Ken? Ball's in your court. As the patch isn't providing a killer
> > > feature for 2.6.22, I'd suggest just reverting it for now until the
> > > issues are ironed out.
> >
> > Hold it.  The real question here is which logics do we want there.
> > IOW, and how many device nodes do we want to appear and _when_ do
> > we want them to appear?
>
> The when part is what looks to make it racy. I'm guessing that we're
> relying on udev to create those loop nodes. If so, I think any scheme
> that creates more on demand would give transient mount errors while
> it's waiting on udev to create more nodes.
>

this seems to work with /dev/pts though. May be, by accident?

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