Andi
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Andi Gutmans - Computer Science, Israel Institute of Technology
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On Wed, 21 May 1997, Benjamin C R LaHaise wrote:
> Hello,
> ...
> > How about mounting subdirs through loop driver ?!
> > Like
> > /somewhere/in/hd/space on /somewhere/else
> >
> > Or am I talking offtopic here !?
>
> Offtopic - no, but you are confusing things a bit - the loopback device
> creates a block device from a file. A filesystems is needed to mount a
> directory elsewhere on the machine. Luckily, I've written one (get
> ftp://dot.superaje.com/pub/linux/lofs-2.0.30.diff). Just remember that
> most of the time this is an ugly hack that can be avoided w/symlinks &
> such, but it has valid uses (chroot is *very* useful w/lofs). So just do
> a 'mount -t lofs -o dir=/somewhere/in/hd/space /somewhere/in/hd/space
> /somewhere/else'
>
> -benjamin
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