From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
To: Nicolas George <george@nsup.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Using kernel filesystems as userland libraries
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 08:35:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54743139.3090104@ladisch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141124131200.GA28582@phare.normalesup.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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-25 7:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-24 13:12 Using kernel filesystems as userland libraries Nicolas George
2014-11-25 7:35 ` Clemens Ladisch [this message]
2014-11-25 7:46 ` xun ni
2014-11-25 8:34 ` Richard Weinberger
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