From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: losetuping files in tmpfs fails?
Date: 5 Jan 2002 15:20:05 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a181n5$tm3$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020105215147.GH136@pervalidus>
Followup to: <20020105215147.GH136@pervalidus>
By author: =?iso-8859-1?B?RnLpZOlyaWMgTC4gVy4=?= Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On a side note, why do I need to use losetup -d after umount
> when /etc/mtab is a symlink to /proc/mounts ?
>
> mount or loop "feature" ?
>
/proc/mounts, unlike /etc/mtab, doesn't tell umount(8) that this was a
loopback created by mount(8) as opposed to a preexisting loopback
created by losetup(8).
-hpa
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-05 23:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-05 21:51 losetuping files in tmpfs fails? Frédéric L. W. Meunier
2002-01-05 23:20 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2002-01-06 0:15 ` Guest section DW
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2002-01-04 18:47 Ishan Oshadi Jayawardena
2002-01-05 23:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-30 12:39 Andy Gaynor
2002-01-03 23:10 ` Andrew Morton
2002-01-03 23:42 ` David Golden
2002-01-03 23:42 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-01-04 10:38 ` Andy Gaynor
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