On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> Andries, how do you feel about an extension to mtab to have a "loop"
> option in the options field so that unmount can know to delete it if it
> was created by mount? I realise this won't work for people who symlink
> /etc/mtab to /proc/mounts.
Surprise! That is precisely how things work today.
I understand thanks for the info, maybe a note somewhere in the kernel
docs about losetup would be nice.
Why in the kernel docs? Because people do not read man pages?
There is good documentation in mount(8) and in losetup(8).
Andries
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