Lennart Poettering
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This adds support for retrieving info about the inode backing a loopback file to udev-builtin-blkid. It will pick up the inode number and device of the backing inode, as well as the lo_file_name[] array that the loopback device maintains. A later patch uses this information to create block device symlinks in /dev/ that allow refering block devices by their backing inodes. This is useful when separate tools set up a loopback device from those which ultimately shall mount them, and there shall be a stable reference be passed along. For example, we can add a new kernel option setuploop= or so which allows setting up a block device via a generator, and still have a way to safely reference later. And yes, this doesn't directly have anything to do with the probing libblkid does, but it's close enough, and we have the device open anyway here, so the additional ioctl() here should not hurt.
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