[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 No feedback.. so applied (we will see ... :-)
didn`t i really comment on that?
mhh - weird!


 Roland, didn't you ask for more than 256 loop devices?
 http://www.mail-archive.com/util-linux-ng@vger.kernel.org/msg00842.html

oh yes, indeed! actually i have a system where i use more than 256 loop devices (central cd-rom server) and it`s working very well.
i`m sure i did try the patch once and it seemed to work, but since the cd-rom 
server was already in production, i was using a less intrusive hack on that to 
work arond the problem. iirc, the patch didn`t apply to suse util-linux package 
and i didnŽt want to replace it by the original util-linux package.

will try your patch again very soon and give feedback - thank you for asking!


It sounds like the right thing to do is probably to do something equivalent to /dev/ptmx for loop devices in the kernel. I had been planning to do some loop device hacking soonish anyway; I might look into that at the same time.

        -hpa
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