Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 28 Nov 1996 19:22:16 +0200 (EET) | From | Tuomas Heino <> | Subject | Re: Union file system |
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On Thu, 28 Nov 1996, Andi Gutmans wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Nov 1996, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > > A loopback mount is far easier than a union file system, and a big > > necessity if you need to set up multiple chrooted environments. > > > > And don't tell me to use a NFS back-mount. NFS is not a solution, NFS is a > > problem in and of itself. (Did anybody check the speed of nfs vs smbfs?) > > Hey, > > I don't really understand why loopback mounts don't exist in Linux then. > It really doesn't sound too hard to implement for someone who knows the fs > code of Linux fairly well. > Any volunteers? Loopback filesystems are great....... > Andi > Well some kind of loopback mount exists AND is in the 2.*.* kernels ;) You'll just need mount-2.5k (or mount-2.5p as linux-2.1.13/Documentation/Changes tells you;) then just use mount like: mount /tmp/fdimage /mnt -o loop=/dev/loop0,blocksize=1024 (shortened example from man page) if you don't have the /dev entry then you might want to do this: mknod /dev/loop0 b 7 0
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