From 6a16394cd6e40f796b19619f8aae992f38065908 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@amutable.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2026 06:35:59 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] units: use --relax in systemd-loop@.service

Our primary usecase for this service is to deal with sector issues
around CDROMs. For that insisting on proper DDI layout and a root
partition is overkill. Let's hence relax the logic for this.

Fixes: #43605
---
 man/systemd-loop@.service.xml | 2 +-
 units/systemd-loop@.service   | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man/systemd-loop@.service.xml b/man/systemd-loop@.service.xml
index 57ed181263..61d984c6db 100644
--- a/man/systemd-loop@.service.xml
+++ b/man/systemd-loop@.service.xml
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
     <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-escape</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>'s
     <option>--path</option> to properly escape a file system path.</para>
 
-    <para>This unit invokes <command>systemd-dissect --attach --quiet --loop-ref-auto</command> on the
+    <para>This unit invokes <command>systemd-dissect --attach --relax --quiet --loop-ref-auto</command> on the
     specified files, see
     <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-dissect</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry> for
     details.</para>
diff --git a/units/systemd-loop@.service b/units/systemd-loop@.service
index a063dcec86..2b31c7b2b6 100644
--- a/units/systemd-loop@.service
+++ b/units/systemd-loop@.service
@@ -20,5 +20,5 @@ After=modprobe@loop.service
 Type=oneshot
 RemainAfterExit=yes
 TimeoutSec=infinity
-ExecStart=systemd-dissect --attach --loop-ref-auto --quiet %f
+ExecStart=systemd-dissect --attach --relax --loop-ref-auto --quiet %f
 ExecStop=systemd-dissect --detach %f