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    [PATCH] loop: remove the bio remapping capability · a34c0ae9
    Andrew Morton authored
    This patch removes the loop feature wherein we remap BIOs for block-backed
    loop.  So file-backed and block-backed loop are handled identically.
    
    It cleans up the code a lot and fixes the low-on-memory lockups which
    block-backed loop currently suffers.
    
    What we lose is the journalling ordering guarantees which
    exts-on-loop-on-blockdev had.  But dm-crypt provides that.
    a34c0ae9
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