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From: Alan McKinnon <alan@linuxholdings.co.za>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Creating loop devices
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On Monday 30 October 2006 15:05, F.J.Zhao wrote:
> Why not to use mknod?
>
> mknod b /dev/loop0 7 0
> mknod b /dev/loop1 7 1
> mknod b /dev/loop2 7 2
> ...
> chgrp disk /dev/loop*

Because this is a udev only machine and I want udev to create the nodes. 
If I have to, I'll put the commands in a script to run at boot time, 
but I would rather have udev do it (as the devs intend). 
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