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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Use of "device" argument in mount.
Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 15:40:48 +0100
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In-Reply-To: <3EBBBCCB.8B4B24B7@free.fr>; from jerome.devivie@free.fr on Fri, May 09, 2003 at 04:35:55PM +0200
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On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 04:35:55PM +0200, Jerome de Vivie wrote:
> 
> In loopback mount, a pathname could be used for the device argument. As
> for loopback mount, i wish to use the device argument to pass a pathname
> to a stackable filesystem. Is it easyly doable ?

In Linux 2.4 it's not doable, in Linux 2.5 it's easily doable.