Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:58:44 +0100 | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Subject | Re: Can ext3 or ReiserFS w/ journalling be made on /dev/loop? |
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Hi,
On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 07:59:21PM +0000, Marc Mutz wrote: > > I was asked a question lately that I was unable to answer: Assume you > want to make a (encrypted, but that's not the issue here) filesystem on > a loopback block device (/dev/loop*). Can this be a journalling one? In > other words, will > > prompt$ mount -t {ext3|reiserfs} -oloop my_file my_mount_point > > be stable to work with?
It's completely untested so I've no idea --- but I can't think of any reason offhand why it shouldn't work. The loop interface is pretty clean wrt. IO reordering, which is all that ext3 cares about.
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