Re: Any workaround for mounting an image file (with loop device)which resides on NTFS?

[Szakacsits Szabolcs]

> Scenario: I placed one disk image (image.dd) on a NTFS volume (it's
> the only partition where I have some available space) and my idea was
> to first mount NTFS partition as /mnt/ntfs, and afterwards mounting
> /mnt/ntfs/image.dd (ext3) with loop device.
>
> I'm getting the following error at the second mount command:
> ioctl: LOOP_SET_FD: Invalid argument

Only the rewritten (new, version 2) ntfs driver supports this, see for more

	http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/status.html

People and some distros use loopback mount from NTFS for r/w for over a
year with the new driver. Nobody reported problems.

	Szaka

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