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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: losetuping files in tmpfs fails?
Date: 5 Jan 2002 15:20:05 -0800
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>
> 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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