On Wed, 17 May 2000, Blu3 wrote:
> On Thu, 18 May 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:
> > > I'd rather not cross off loopback fs. Mounting anything loopback is a sure
> > > recipe for a quick deadlock of the machine. For me this is a few seconds
> > > before it catches like a plague.
> >
> > WTF _is_ loopback fs, in the first place? Could you post mount arguments
> > and your /etc/fstab?
>
> s/loopback fs/loop option for filesystem/
>
> mount -o blah,loop /somefile /somemountpoint
Ah, so that's loopback device - this -o loop stands for "Mr. mount(8),
please call losetup(8) before mounting". Loopback filesystem actually
exists on Solaris (and it's completely different thing) _and_ there is a
patch that gives the same on Linux. Thus the questions...
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