Re: Loop Devices over NFS don't work?

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 5 Jul 1999 18:12:55 +0100 (BST)


> Oh, in that case shouldn't losetup fail with an error?
>
> Also, is it really necessary to have bmap to do loop devices? Couldn't
> some sort of alternate mechanism be used?

You could fall back to read/write in theory. There is an interesting project
for you 8)

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