Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 23 May 1997 14:02:02 +0300 (IDT) | From | Andi Gutmans <> | Subject | Re: loopback filesystem (was Re: dynamic partitions) |
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Hi, Any idea if this is going to make it into 2.1.x ??? Is it stable?
Andi
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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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