[Buildd-tools-devel] Bug#475515: Bug#475515: [schroot] impossible to use loopback mounts
Roger Leigh
rleigh at whinlatter.ukfsn.org
Tue Apr 15 20:34:03 UTC 2008
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:18:30PM +0200, Emanuele Aina wrote:
> --- Please enter the report below this line. ---
> schroot checks in schroot-releaselock/schroot-releaselock-main.cc that
> the configured block device is really a block device, failing if not so:
>
> if (!S_ISBLK(statbuf.st_mode))
> throw error(this->opts->device, DEVICE_NOTBLOCK);
>
> This breaks for me as I'd like to mount a loopback filesystem by specifying
> "-o loop" in the mount options, so I'm currently doing the mount manually.
Please could you provide some details about your schroot configuration and what
you are trying to do?
As far as I understand, the loopback mounts use /dev/loopn, which should
be real block devices.
Thanks,
Roger
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