Re: Loop Devices over NFS don't work?

Jason Gunthorpe (jgg@ualberta.ca)
Mon, 5 Jul 1999 11:51:54 -0600 (MDT)


On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Alan Cox wrote:

> > Oh, in that case shouldn't losetup fail with an error?
> >
> > Also, is it really necessary to have bmap to do loop devices? Couldn't
> > some sort of alternate mechanism be used?
>
> You could fall back to read/write in theory. There is an interesting project
> for you 8)

How interesting (It looks simple to me, but is there something I'm not
aware of?) It beats rebooting my desktop every time I screw up on this
filesystem driver (MS Flash Filesystem 2 if anyone cares)!

Thanks,
Jason

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