On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:12:51 -0400 David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 13:01 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Why do we want to do this? > > In general, so that we can automatically allocate loop devices (as with > losetup -f) and have them disappear when we're done with them. > > In particular, right now, so that we can stop relying on the hackish > special-case in umount(8) which kills off loop devices which were set up > by 'mount -oloop'. That means we can stop putting crap in /etc/mtab > which doesn't belong there, which means it can be a symlink > to /proc/mounts, which means yet another writable file on the root > filesystem is eliminated and the 'stateless' folks get happier... and > OLPC trac #356 can be closed. > > The mount(8) side of that is at > http://marc.info/?l=util-linux-ng&m=119362955431694&w=2 ooh, I spy a changelog. Thanks. - 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/
