Re: [PATCH 2/2] loop: handle on-demand devices correctly

From: Laurent Vivier
Date: Tue May 24 2011 - 11:29:51 EST


Le mardi 24 mai 2011 Ã 23:57 +0900, Namhyung Kim a Ãcrit :
> 2011-05-24 (í), 16:45 +0200, Jens Axboe:
> > Thanks, applied. Seems we should mark this for stable.
> >
>
> Hi Jens,
>
> The partition handling was introduced by commit 476a4813cfdd ("loop:
> manage partitions in disk image") so that we need these patches for all
> stable releases, AFAICS.
>
> $ git name-rev --tags 476a4813cfdd
> 476a4813cfdd tags/v2.6.26-rc1~1115^2~9
>
> Now I can see that brd (ramdisk) module seems to have same problems with
> loop. I'll work on that, too.

Have a look to nbd.c too.

Regards,
Laurent

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