Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 Jul 1999 10:24:32 -0600 (MDT) | From | Jason Gunthorpe <> | Subject | Re: Loop Devices over NFS don't work? |
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On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> That's right, the nfs filesystem does not support the bmap() method. > So loop devices will not work over NFS. I'm not sure that it's > possible to implement a bmap method for a network filesystem, to be > honest.
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?
Thanks, Jason
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