No loop device in new kernel?

[Chris Murphy]

On Dec 21, 2013, at 6:19 PM, Tom Horsley <horsley1953 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there no loop device in the new 3.12.5 kernel by
> default? I was just trying to mount a filesystem via
> realcrypt and kept getting errors about unable to
> setup the loop device.
> 
> After some poking around with google searches I found
> some other folks with the same error claiming that
> the kernel no longer loads the loop module by default.
> 
> I added a /etc/modules-load.d/loop.conf file and
> rebooted and was able to use realcrypt again, but
> having a non-functional loop by default seems like
> a bug to me :-).

I vaguely recall it being mentioned during early early testing, but I'm not finding a feature page for it.


Chris Murphy