On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 01:49:14PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > I get the same loopback release with /etc/mtab as a regular file. > > This may be due to the new kernel or new util-linux in unstable, > but it is now freeing the loop devices correctly. It must be in > the new util-linux, because it's putting the loop device, rather > than the loopback filename, as the source in /etc/mtab such that > it always matches /proc/mounts. Previously they differed, and > this resulted in the loop device not being freed when the loop > device was used. This is no longer the case. (I'm not familiar > with the util-linux source, but I can't actually see this change > and it /looks/ like it uses the old behaviour, but this may be > just a special case for certain use cases. The observed > behaviour is what we want though!) > > Dmitry, can you confirm this on your system? Your bug report > shows you are using stable; do you have a system running > unstable you can check on (or if anyone else can check this as > I have above?)
Roger, I've checked in squeeze using 2.6.26 kernel with /etc/mtab linked to /proc/mounts and the loop device is freed according to losetup -a. -- /Dmitry <[email protected]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
