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SubjectRE: PATCH: allow percentile size of tmpfs (2.5.66 / 2.4.20-pre2)
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Yes, you are absolutely right...

> I presume the below was a typo and In the second mount it should be
>
> "mount -t ext2 -o loop /mnt/tmp/A /mnt/loopback"
>
> instead of just
>
> "mount -t ext2 -o loop /mnt/tmp /mnt/loopback"
>
> Else wise the directory name "/mnt/tmp" would most certainly be a
> bad target
> for a loopback mount.
>
> Rob.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
> [mailto:linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org]On Behalf Of Hua Zhong
> Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 11:55 PM
> To: Christoph Rohland; Daniel Egger
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: RE: PATCH: allow percentile size of tmpfs (2.5.66 /
> 2.4.20-pre2)
>
>
> mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /mnt/tmp
> extract file A to /mnt/tmp/A
> mount -t ext2 -o loop /mnt/tmp /mnt/loopback
>
> You'll get "ioctl: LOOP_SET_FD: Invalid argument".
>
>
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