Re: Using kernel filesystems as userland libraries

[Clemens Ladisch]

Nicolas George wrote:
> With the libraries present in e2fsprogs, it is possible to open a plain file
> (or any other reasonable storage) as an EXT2 filesystem and manipulate files
> inside it.
>
> Is it possible to use the implementations in the kernel to do the same thing
> with any supported normal filesystem?

mount -o loop /plain/file /where/to/mount
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