Re: Loop Devices over NFS don't work?

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Fri, 9 Jul 1999 15:41:54 +0200 (CEST)


On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Pavel Machek wrote:

>Because for writing _datablock_ on loopfs you need to write
>_indirectblock_ on hosting filesystem. Something that could not have

This if the loop-file has holes. Otherwise you only need to read where to
write via bmap.

Andrea

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