From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752385AbaKYHfa (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Nov 2014 02:35:30 -0500 Received: from smtprelay06.ispgateway.de ([80.67.31.96]:33856 "EHLO smtprelay06.ispgateway.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752356AbaKYHf1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Nov 2014 02:35:27 -0500 Message-ID: <54743139.3090104@ladisch.de> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 08:35:21 +0100 From: Clemens Ladisch User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nicolas George , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Using kernel filesystems as userland libraries References: <20141124131200.GA28582@phare.normalesup.org> In-Reply-To: <20141124131200.GA28582@phare.normalesup.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Df-Sender: bGludXgta2VybmVsQGNsLmRvbWFpbmZhY3Rvcnkta3VuZGUuZGU= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Nicolas George wrote: > With the libraries present in e2fsprogs, it is possible to open a plain file > (or any other reasonable storage) as an EXT2 filesystem and manipulate files > inside it. > > Is it possible to use the implementations in the kernel to do the same thing > with any supported normal filesystem? mount -o loop /plain/file /where/to/mount