[lustre-devel] lustre and loopback device

[NeilBrown]

On Mon, Apr 02 2018, Jinshan Xiong wrote:

> Hi Andreas,
>
> There are still some more work going on, like to apply the changes in
> LU-4198.
> The other improvement is to make 'lctl blockdev' attach a loop device to
> readonly by default, otherwise the virtual block device would be corrupted
> if there exist multiple writers.
>
> After that's done, I will be happy to push a patch for review.

If you just posted it now - even though it isn't perfect yet - I could
read it, understand what the problem is that it is trying to fix, and start
looking at how to improve drivers/block/loop.c so that your patch isn't
necessary.

NeilBrown
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