Re: [PATCH] Initial Vector Fix for loop.c.

Jörn Engel (joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de)
Fri, 20 Jun 2003 13:03:57 +0200

On Fri, 20 June 2003 12:51:20 +0200, Fruhwirth Clemens wrote:
>
> Let's see. If there is flag based fix and we make the old behavior default
> we will trick many new users into using the old broken IV metric. If we make
> the new metric default the user can't mount his old images.

Unless he starts thinking and reads up how it works in 2.6.

> As there is no autodetection for default behavior, there will be no way to
> avoid the pain. Well, almost. We could allocate a new major for a different
> metric, and create /dev/loop-ng*. That'd be feasible, but actually just a
> pain transfer .. from the user to the developer :)

I don't see a problem with that, assuming there are more users than
developers. :)

Jörn

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