On Sat, 24 Apr 1999 00:17:35 +0100, James Fidell <james@cloud9.co.uk>
said:
> Ok, so I've found out the hard way that the loopback devices don't
> actually allow me to do what I wanted to, which was to mount (say)
> some device as /export/x and then loop /x back to /export/x
> On Solaris I can continue to write to both /x and /export/x without a
> problem, but it seems that the loopback code for Linux thinks it has
> sole access to the device in question.
Solaris has loopback filesystems. Linux has loopback _devices_, which
are completely different things!
> Is there any way to do what I'm trying to do (other than what I'm doing
> at the moment, which is to remount /export/x under /x using NFS) ?
NFS or symlinks are probably the main options right now.
--Stephen
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