[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#494001: Bug#494001: `mount -o loop' runs out of loop devices

2009-06-05 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 12:02:11PM +1200, Dmitry Maksyoma wrote: On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 07:18:29PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: However, if Dmitry can confirm this is a real bug (as opposed to a documentation issue, in which case it still needs a bug against mount), then the solution is

[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#494001: Bug#494001: `mount -o loop' runs out of loop devices

2009-06-04 Thread Roger Leigh
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 12:43:29AM +1000, Kel Modderman wrote: CC'ing Roger. On Saturday 30 May 2009 21:49:16 Dmitry Maksyoma wrote: Just to let you know: when /etc/mtab is a symlink to /proc/mounts, loop devices aren't freed by umount and the system may run out of loop devices

[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#494001: Bug#494001: `mount -o loop' runs out of loop devices

2009-06-04 Thread Dmitry Maksyoma
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 07:18:29PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: However, if Dmitry can confirm this is a real bug (as opposed to a documentation issue, in which case it still needs a bug against mount), then the solution is fixing mount rather than not fixing this bug. Running out of loop

[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#494001: Bug#494001: `mount -o loop' runs out of loop devices

2009-05-31 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 30 May 2009, Dmitry Maksyoma wrote: Just to let you know: when /etc/mtab is a symlink to /proc/mounts, loop devices aren't freed by umount and the system may run out of loop devices (which makes things worse than they were with old-style mtab). Apparently, it's not a bug, as it's

[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#494001: Bug#494001: `mount -o loop' runs out of loop devices

2009-05-31 Thread Dmitry Maksyoma
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 09:39:17AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: Just to let you know: when /etc/mtab is a symlink to /proc/mounts, loop devices aren't freed by umount and the system may run out of loop devices (which makes things worse than they were with old-style mtab).