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From: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>
To: Jonathan Picht <jonathan.picht@web.de>
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Subject: Re: PROBLEM: loopback mount doesn't work with files on shm filesystem
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Hi Jonathan,

On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Jonathan Picht wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> if I try to mount a file which resides on shm with '-o loop',
> I get this output:
> 
> ioctl: LOOP_SET_FD: Invalid argument

Yes, loopback does not work on tmpfs and is not easy to implement.

Greetings
		Christoph


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