From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Cc: Arthur Pedyczak <arthur-p@home.com>,
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>,
Linux kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: loop problems continue in 2.4.3
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 18:37:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010416183753.H9539@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010416104936.B9539@suse.de> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0104160527400.3095-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0104160527400.3095-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>; from viro@math.psu.edu on Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 05:30:45AM -0400
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-04-16 16:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <3AD7EE80.5AADA578@mandrakesoft.com>
2001-04-16 1:08 ` loop problems continue in 2.4.3 Arthur Pedyczak
2001-04-16 1:37 ` Arthur Pedyczak
2001-04-16 8:49 ` Jens Axboe
2001-04-16 9:30 ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-16 10:10 ` Mircea Damian
2001-04-16 16:38 ` Jens Axboe
2001-04-16 16:37 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2001-04-14 16:31 Aaron Lunansky
2001-04-14 20:15 ` Arthur Pedyczak
2001-04-16 23:02 ` David Woodhouse
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-04-14 3:35 Arthur Pedyczak
2001-04-14 7:54 ` Jens Axboe
2001-04-14 12:46 ` Arthur Pedyczak
2001-04-14 12:58 ` Ola Garstad
2001-04-07 22:04 Ian Eure
2001-04-09 7:56 ` Jens Axboe
2001-04-11 19:04 ` Ian Eure
2001-04-13 12:56 ` Jens Axboe
2001-04-16 16:17 ` Ian Eure
2001-04-16 20:53 ` Jens Axboe
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20010416183753.H9539@suse.de \
--to=axboe@suse.de \
--cc=arthur-p@home.com \
--cc=jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=viro@math.psu.edu \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.