[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#494001: Bug#494001: `mount -o loop' runs out of loop devices

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Sat, 30 May 2009, Dmitry Maksyoma wrote:
> Just to let you know: when /etc/mtab is a symlink to /proc/mounts, loop
> devices aren't freed by umount and the system may run out of loop devices
> (which makes things worse than they were with old-style mtab). Apparently,
> it's not a bug, as it's documented in mount(8):

If mount is still doing that (which I doubt), it needs to be fixed.  The
information it needs to free loop devices is part of /proc/mounts
nowadays...

Time to file a bug on mount(8).

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