If I want to dynamically create loop devices, how would I dynamically create loop device minor numbers in some way, from a shell script, eg.:
# setup: UNIQUE_NAME=unique_login_name LOOP_DEV=/dev/loop/$UNIQUE_NAME MINOR_NUMBER=some_hash_or_what_??? mknod $LOOP_DEV b 7 $MINOR_NUMBER chown root.disk $LOOP_DEV losetup $LOOP_DEV /home/$UNIQUE_NAME/source mount $LOOP_DEV /home/$UNIQUE_NAME/target ... # tear down: umount /home/$UNIQUE_NAME/target losetup -d $LOOP_DEV rm $LOOP_DEV Each dyn created loop device will have unique lifetime. So they will be losetup -d'ed at different times, so eventually, the minor numbers will need to be reused. Is there any easy way to do this, whilst creating loop devices with names which I assign, as in the example above? (I began a thread on this a few days ago (and no replies yet), which I will update if you just post here on slug, at http://forum.kernelnewbies.org/read.php?12,2126 ) TIA Zen -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
