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SubjectRe: loop problems continue in 2.4.3
On Mon, Apr 16 2001, Alexander Viro wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Jens Axboe wrote:
>
> > > I can mount the same file on the same mountpoint more than once. If I
> > > mount a file twice (same file on the same mount point)
> >
> > This is a 2.4 feature
>
> Ability to losetup different loop devices to the same underlying
> file is a bug, though. Not that it was new, though...

It's also so close to 'doctor it hurts' that I don't think that's a big
deal. Besides, if we later on want to have size limitited loop on files
(some have already expressed wishes in this direction), we'll do this
anyway.

--
Jens Axboe

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