[systemd-devel] udevd creates unwanted loop devices, and too early

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Saturday 2012-10-13 13:26, Kay Sievers wrote:
>On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 11:50 PM, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> Now, in /etc/modprobe.d/99-local.conf, I have set forth:
>>
>>   options loop max_loop=256 max_part=15
>
>[...] losetup has proper loop allocation code, pre-creation is not needed.
>Also loop devices have proper native partition support in the kernel
>since quite a while, and this (broken) option should just not be used
>today.

Aha. losetup -P seems to be the magic knob.