Re: /dev/loop* problem

Trevor Johnson (trevor@jpj.net)
Sun, 3 May 1998 14:16:31 -0400 (EDT)


> losetup /dev/loop7 /usr/local/etc/swapdisk
> swapon /dev/loop7
>
> This worked fine under 2.0.xx. However, since I began using 2.1.xx, I
> found I was hard locked all the time

Is there an advantage to using the loop driver rather than just swapping
to a file?
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Trevor Johnson

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