[Fedora-livecd-list] [PATCH] mayflower: use dynamically allocated loop devices

[Douglas McClendon]

The attached patch causes mayflower to use dynamically allocated loop 
devices for the rootfs readonly-base, readwrite-overlay, squashfs, and 
osmin loop devices, rather than /dev/loop118,119,120&121.

udev rules were updated, and two new ones added, so that 
/dev/live-osmin, /dev/live-squashed, /dev/live-osimg, and 
/dev/live-overlay links will be created by udev.

Also, the unnecessary mknod calls referencing those devices were removed.

I tested with a minimal spin under qemu, and everything appeared as it 
should.  I could mount /dev/mapper/live-osimg-min and it looked fine.

I did another minimal spin with --skip-compression.  For some reason I 
had to hit ctrl-c at to get past udev starting.  I'm pretty sure I've 
seen this before and it has nothing to do with this patch.  After doing 
that, and logging in, I verified that it correctly handled the absence 
of a squashfs loop device.

Comments?

-dmc
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