Re: Irritating ext2fs corruption [solved]

Matthias Urlichs (smurf@noris.de)
Mon, 17 Aug 1998 07:54:27 +0200


Hi,

Guest section DW:
>
> Matthias Urlichs writes:
>
> > Bah. After I had been bitten by this a few times too often, I changed mount
> > and the loopback driver to auto-disassociate the loopback interface on last
> > close (via an ioctl which sets a flag).
>
> Strange.. Have you read the code? Mount already does this.
> (Provided you use /etc/mtab, not /proc/mounts .)

You mean, umount does that if I use /var/run/mtab. Which is exactly the
point, as I'm using /proc/mounts because I need to run multiple unrelated
mount commands in parallel without them getting into each other's way.

-- 
Matthias Urlichs
noris network GmbH

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