Bug 9491 - loop device not freed after umount
Summary: loop device not freed after umount
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
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Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: kernel (Show other bugs)
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Version: 6.0
Hardware: i386 Linux
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Reported: 2000-02-16 19:57 UTC by Vlado Potisk
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-10-05 14:28:43 UTC
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Description Vlado Potisk 2000-02-16 19:57:23 UTC 
I use a file as a filesystem volume using the loop device,
the fstab entry looks like this:
	<myfile> <mountpoint> ext2 loop,user,noauto 0 0

I mount/umount this volume frequently as an ordinary user.
I noticed that after umount, the corresponding device /dev/loop0,
loop1, loop2, etc. gets not freed; after several umounts no loop
devices are left available and mount command fails. To correct it
I had to run losetup -d.

When root umounts the volume, everything looks fine.
The kernel is ver 2.2.11.
Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2000-08-09 15:17:26 UTC 
Looks like a kernel problem, probably fixed by now...
Comment 2 Ben LaHaise 2000-10-04 22:04:16 UTC 
Does this still happen in RH7?
Comment 3 Vlado Potisk 2000-10-05 14:28:19 UTC 
Don't know and cannot check version 7.0, but
6.2 with kernel 2.2.16 appears to have this bug
corrected.
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