From 0258872e2b45b589481e6796aa983f8749be9ada Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Karel Zak Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2017 12:37:34 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 157/173] losetup: add info about lazy detach to manpage Upstream: http://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/commit/60eedb0a53f14aa1169713a72325421db8e1c647 Addresses: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1566390 Signed-off-by: Karel Zak --- sys-utils/losetup.8 | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/sys-utils/losetup.8 b/sys-utils/losetup.8 index 9a8c1d597..45c220187 100644 --- a/sys-utils/losetup.8 +++ b/sys-utils/losetup.8 @@ -80,7 +80,10 @@ without --list) is deprecated. .IP "\fB\-c, \-\-set-capacity\fP \fIloopdev\fP force loop driver to reread size of the file associated with the specified loop device .IP "\fB\-d, \-\-detach\fP \fIloopdev\fP..." -detach the file or device associated with the specified loop device(s) +detach the file or device associated with the specified loop device(s). Note +that since Linux v3.7 kernel uses "lazy device destruction". The detach +operation does not return EBUSY error anymore if device is actively used by +system, but it is marked by autoclear flag and destroyed later. .IP "\fB\-D, \-\-detach-all\fP" detach all associated loop devices .IP "\fB\-f, \-\-find\fP" -- 2.14.4