Re: [dm-devel] Possible severe bug in the device mapper?

[Joe Thornber <thornber redhat com>]

On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 10:30 +0100, Andreas Heinlein wrote:
> 2. Create a loopback device with this file (losetup -f
> /media/somedrive/testfile) 

I'm just trying to understand your complaint here.  If device-mapper
wasn't in the equation here, and you were using the loop-back device
directly (i.e. by putting a filesystem on it and mounting).  Then you
pulled the removable device, what happens?

- Joe