oh, nice to see that this is still alive. i tried this around half a year ago because i needed more than 256 loop devices and iirc, this was working quite fine. at least i got no crashes and was able to mount and acess more than 300 iso-images with that.
shortly after, loop device was extended to handle a larger number of loop-devices and i went that way because dm-loop was not in mainline. i have taken a look at the wiki at http://sources.redhat.com/lvm2/wiki/DMLoop from time to time, but there didn`t seem to happen much. were there fixes/chances since then? do you think it`s ready for mainline? >Here's the latest version of dm-loop, for comparison. > >To try it out, > ln -s dmsetup dmlosetup >and supply similar basic parameters to losetup. >(using dmsetup version 1.02.11 or higher) > >Alasdair > >From: Bryn Reeves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >This implements a loopback target for device mapper allowing a regular >file to be treated as a block device. > >Signed-off-by: Bryn Reeves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __________________________________________________________________________ Erweitern Sie FreeMail zu einem noch leistungsstärkeren E-Mail-Postfach! Mehr Infos unter http://produkte.web.de/club/?mc=021131 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
