[systemd-devel] mounting loop

[Christian Hesse]

Christian Hesse <list at eworm.de> on Mon, 2015/04/20 09:25:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> with systemd 219 mounting a filesystem image in loopback mode fails. Using
> these command:
> 
> # truncate -s 1G /tmp/test.img
> # mkfs.ext4 /tmp/test.img
> [...]
> # mount -o loop /tmp/test.img /mnt/tmp
> 
> systemd umounts the image as it thinks it is inactive:
> 
> Apr 20 08:54:28 leda systemd[1]: Unit mnt-tmp.mount is bound to inactive
> unit. Stopping, too.
> Apr 20 08:54:28 leda systemd[1]: Unmounting /mnt/tmp...
> Apr 20 08:54:28 leda systemd[1]: Unmounted /mnt/tmp.
> 
> However manually assigning a loop device and mounting that works just fine:
> 
> # losetup -f /tmp/test.img
> # losetup -a
> /dev/loop0: [0034]:695793 (/tmp/test.img)
> # mount /dev/loop0 /mnt/tmp
> 
> I think this is not the intended behavior, no? Any chance to fix that?

Looks like the issue is fixed with this upstream commit:

From 628c89cc68ab96fce2de7ebba5933725d147aecc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 21:55:08 +0100
Subject: core: rework device state logic

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