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| author | Karel Zak | 2017-08-10 12:37:34 +0200 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2017-08-10 12:37:34 +0200 |
| commit | 60eedb0a53f14aa1169713a72325421db8e1c647 (patch) | |
| tree | 73f648ba45293f3238d6e5db9c034151e2a9edb2 /sys-utils/losetup.8 | |
| parent | Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/RAOF/util-linux (diff) | |
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losetup: add info about lazy detach to manpage
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'sys-utils/losetup.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | sys-utils/losetup.8 | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sys-utils/losetup.8 b/sys-utils/losetup.8 index 9dab58037..98a8e70d6 100644 --- a/sys-utils/losetup.8 +++ b/sys-utils/losetup.8 @@ -87,7 +87,10 @@ for non-root users. See also \fB\-\-list\fR. The old output format (as printed without \fB--list)\fR is deprecated. .TP .BR \-d , " \-\-detach " \fIloopdev\fR... -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. .TP .BR \-D , " \-\-detach\-all" Detach all associated loop devices. |