Re: [PATCH 4/5] Fix loop test

[Phillip Susi]

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On 12/22/2011 04:54 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> I'd really like to have a way to run two or more scsi_debug-using
> tests in parallel but that is not possible: the kernel allows only one.
> 
> Note that for many of our scsi-debug-using tests, you cannot duplicate
> the functionality using a loop device.  Besides, even where you can,

I thought the only reason you needed scsi_debug was because loop devices 
couldn't be partitioned.  What other reason is there?  

> because we don't use e.g., special alignment or block size, you risk
> being unable to create a loop device due to inherent limitations, or,
> if you create a few because their tests are running in parallel, you
> risk perturbing regular processes that (albeit rarely) need to create a
> loop device.  That is part of the reason for my using a private-homed
> device tree: there I know I'm starting from a clean slate: i.e., far
> less risk of interfering with some other loop-creating process.

I don't follow.  How does using loop devices interfere with other processes 
doing the same?  And how does using your own /dev directory help at all?  Just 
because you have your own /dev directory doesn't mean you have your own set of 
devices; any devices that actually exist when you start still exist ( and are 
in use ) so you can't re-create a private copy, and any devices you create 
still show up in the real /dev.
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