loop device creation [was Re: udev: Directory for custom device nodes.]

[Féliciano Matias]

Le mardi 25 janvier 2005 à 10:04 -0500, Charles R. Anderson a écrit :
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 12:45:41PM +0100, Harald Hoyer wrote:
> > tty1 tty2 tty3 tty4 tty5 tty6 loop0 loop1 loop2 loop3 loop4 loop5 loop6 
> > loop7 lp0 lp1 lp2 lp3 parport0 parport1 parport2 parport3 net/tun ppp 
> > console null zero
> 
> Why doesn't the loop module cause /dev/loop* device node creation at
> load time?  E.g. I have in /etc/modprobe.conf:
> 
> options loop max_loop=128
> 
> and /etc/fstab I have many of these:
> 
> /iso/FC3-i386-DVD.iso /mnt/heidelberg-i386-DVD iso9660 ro,loop=/dev/loop59,nosuid,nodev 0 0
> 
> Shouldn't rc.sysinit's "mount -a" cause all the loop devices to be
> created automatically?
> 
> It seems to not work at boot time, but later a manual "mount -a" does 
> create the devices...

At boot time, loop module is not loaded.
After your "mount -a", loop is loaded and nodes are created.

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