Andrey Borzenkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sunday 20 May 2007, Kay Sievers wrote: >> >> Until the tools can request dynamic loop device allocation from the >> kernel before they want to use the device, you can create as many as >> needed "static" loop* nodes in /lib/udev/devices/, which will be >> copied to /dev/ early on every bootup. >> > > Won't these be removed after "losetup -d"?
No, only when you unload the loop module (and then only those that were ever used). Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/