From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HKA5Z-0002J9-Ox for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:18:10 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l1M9FTQA001501; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:15:29 GMT Received: from cranium.sybase.co.za (sqlprd.sybase.co.za [192.96.139.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l1M96frf021107 for ; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:06:42 GMT Received: from localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BA9683451 for ; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:14:35 +0200 (SAST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at sybase.co.za Received: from cranium.sybase.co.za ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id wn4F3ON2pQLx for ; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:14:28 +0200 (SAST) Received: from bard.sybase.co.za (bard.sybase.co.za [192.168.2.6]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFA2C8342F for ; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:14:28 +0200 (SAST) Received: from nazgul.sybase.co.za ([192.168.2.68]) by bard.sybase.co.za with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:08:28 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] loop devices not present Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:04:30 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <200702191235.13734.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> <200702210951.45925.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> <20070221160810.73d224e7@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20070221160810.73d224e7@hactar.digimed.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200702221104.30772.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Feb 2007 09:08:28.0640 (UTC) FILETIME=[043EF600:01C75661] X-Archives-Salt: aa18ed94-84e0-41d7-bc4b-4faf5a004141 X-Archives-Hash: 1354f8d1eced474b386fde8f42345709 On Wednesday 21 February 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 09:51:45 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > That would be true except I've beeen setting loop to since many > > kernel versions back. I actually suspect it's more a udev thing, > > there has been a lot of activity and changes with the rules > > recently. But I'm too rushed to decrypt all the rules syntax and > > see what changed. > > My loop devices disappeared like this some time ago - are you using > stable? I initially put loop in modules.autoload.d but since I use > loop devices every time I boot, I moved them into the kernel instead. No, I'm using ~x86. I got things to a satisfactory state using modules.autoload.d just like you and get the best of both worlds. thanks alan -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list