Loop is very useful..
Think:
mount ./test.cdrom.iso /mnt/cdrom -oloop
or
mount ./floppy.test.image /mnt/floppy -tminix -oloop
or even
mount ./quake2.cdimage.to.fool.quake2.iso /mnt/cdrom -oloop
:)
On Sun, 3 May 1998, Trevor Johnson wrote:
> > 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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