On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 12:37:09AM +0100, Christian Jaeger wrote: > PS. I've noticed that the loop devices are not released. > > mount -o loop $from $to > # this allocates a loop device, as can be seen in ps auxww > # (under kernel 2.4.x, as [loop0] or similar kernel threads) > # or in /proc/mounts (source of the mount point). > > umount $to > # now it's unmounted, but the loop device is still active. > # this means that the space allocated by $from is not released and > # that after 8 mount cycles all loop devices are used up. > > I don't know whether umount $from combined with a normal /etc/mtab > file will deallocate the loop device.
That /does/ work normally - I use it often. > If so, then my previous patch is bad. If anything I would call that a bug in umount rather than your patch. -- patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
