Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* John Andersen
[06-30-13 21:57]: [...] No, wait, I was doing that as user. When I do it as root I see all the /dev/loop0 --->7 and the mount command works for me as root.
I have Tumbleweed and only see: crw------- 1 root root 10, 237 Jun 29 00:07 /dev/loop-control
Is it possible that no loop device exists until it is needed,
Yes, the 'loop' module isn't loaded until it is needed.
Indeed, something of the above does happen. As root I loop mounted an iso from disk to an existing directory and the following appears:
crw------- 1 root root 10, 237 Jun 30 23:09 /dev/loop-control brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 0 Jun 30 23:09 /dev/loop0 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 1 Jun 30 23:09 /dev/loop1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 2 Jun 30 23:09 /dev/loop2 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 3 Jun 30 23:09 /dev/loop3 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 4 Jun 30 23:09 /dev/loop4 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 5 Jun 30 23:09 /dev/loop5 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 6 Jun 30 23:09 /dev/loop6 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 7 Jun 30 23:09 /dev/loop7
and they persist after umounting the iso, possibly until the next reboot.
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