Bug#826328: util-linux: losetup -d disfunctional for cloop and similar loop-compatible block devices

2020-05-04 Thread Andreas Henriksson
Hi, On Sun, May 03, 2020 at 11:23:45PM +0200, Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Klaus Knopper wrote: > Hello Chris, > > /me of little patience gave up (maybe too early), and continue to use [...] FWIW my suggestion for you to contact upstream was not simply a way to push this away from being my problem, but I

Bug#826328: util-linux: losetup -d disfunctional for cloop and similar loop-compatible block devices

2020-05-03 Thread Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Klaus Knopper
Hello Chris, /me of little patience gave up (maybe too early), and continue to use busybox losetup ... /dev/cloop* instead of linux-utils busybox. I still think that losetup should not check the major device numbers of loop-devices at all and just do what we expect. On the other hand, most

Bug#826328: util-linux: losetup -d disfunctional for cloop and similar loop-compatible block devices

2020-05-03 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
Hello Klaus, * Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Klaus Knopper [200503 19:20]: > Hello Andreas, > [..] > > Could you please raise your issue on the upstream mailing list > > on vger.kernel.org directly? > > I thought that forwarding a problem to the programs authors is what the > "upstream" marker in reportbug

Bug#826328: util-linux: losetup -d disfunctional for cloop and similar loop-compatible block devices

2016-06-08 Thread Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Klaus Knopper
Hello Andreas, On Mon, Jun 06, 2016 at 12:26:11PM +0200, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > Hello Klaus Knopper. > > Thanks for your bug report. > > On Sat, Jun 04, 2016 at 05:35:43PM +0200, Klaus Knopper wrote: > [...] > > Losetup was able to setup compressed loopback (cloop) devices, which > > have

Bug#826328: util-linux: losetup -d disfunctional for cloop and similar loop-compatible block devices

2016-06-06 Thread Andreas Henriksson
Hello Klaus Knopper. Thanks for your bug report. On Sat, Jun 04, 2016 at 05:35:43PM +0200, Klaus Knopper wrote: [...] > Losetup was able to setup compressed loopback (cloop) devices, which > have a similar ioctl API, until recently the code in sys-utils/losetup.c > and lib/loopdev.c was changed

Bug#826328: util-linux: losetup -d disfunctional for cloop and similar loop-compatible block devices

2016-06-04 Thread Klaus Knopper
Package: util-linux Version: 2.28-5 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Losetup was able to setup compressed loopback (cloop) devices, which have a similar ioctl API, until recently the code in sys-utils/losetup.c and lib/loopdev.c was changed to only accept devices with loopbacks major device id.