Re: Patch to loop device (loop.c)
Alexander Kjeldaas (astor@guardian.no)
Fri, 4 Dec 1998 17:55:08 +0100
On Fri, Dec 04, 1998 at 03:50:47AM +0000, rohloff@informatik.tu-muenchen.de wrote:
>
> Ahh, so I misunderstood the comment, because I didn't know that
> this would be possible (that a backing file containged blocks
> which are not mapped to the block device). Just out of interest,
> how can such a situation happen ?
>
> (Do you open a file and then write to position 100000 for example? )
>
> so long
>
One nice thing about the patch is that it seems like the loop-device
might be useable over NFS with the patch. This opens up some new
possibilities.
astor
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Alexander Kjeldaas, Guardian Networks AS, Trondheim, Norway
http://www.guardian.no/
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