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Re: [PATCH] Allow auto-destruction of loop devices.

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From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...>, <torvalds@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, <bernie@...>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow auto-destruction of loop devices.
Date: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 - 4:05 pm

On Oct 30 2007 13:01, Andrew Morton wrote:

Off the top of my head, lazy unmounting comes to mind.
Think of this:

	mount foobar /mnt -o loop;
	cd /mnt;
	umount /mnt;

Currently, this leaves /dev/loop0 assigned, either chewing up loop
places or needlessy exposing objects meant to be rather not
accessible. (Think cryptoloop devices -- and pam_mount.) BTW, such a
flag would also really be useful for dm(-crypt).

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[PATCH] Allow auto-destruction of loop devices., David Woodhouse, (Sun Oct 28, 7:08 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Allow auto-destruction of loop devices., Andrew Morton, (Tue Oct 30, 4:01 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Allow auto-destruction of loop devices., David Woodhouse, (Tue Oct 30, 4:12 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Allow auto-destruction of loop devices., Andrew Morton, (Tue Oct 30, 4:17 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Allow auto-destruction of loop devices., Jan Engelhardt, (Tue Oct 30, 4:05 pm)