Re: [gentoo-user] Using losetup loopback devices / filesystems - changes aren't written to disk?!?!?

2009-12-14 Thread Stroller
On 7 Dec 2009, at 02:48, Albert Hopkins wrote: ... I tried repeating your experiment, sans NFS and NTFS, and while I did note that the modification timestamp on the file did not change, the contents of the file did (i.e. the filesystem changed). FWIW this is Debian bug #459703 (Google told me

[gentoo-user] Using losetup loopback devices / filesystems - changes aren't written to disk?!?!?

2009-12-06 Thread Stroller
Ok, I'm really new to loopback devices / filesystems, so please forgive me if I'm doing something stupid here. It wouldn't be the first time. :/ I've created this loopback filesystem, by using `dd if=/dev/zero of=individual.files.img` (so named because I'm hope to copy a bunch of

Re: [gentoo-user] Using losetup loopback devices / filesystems - changes aren't written to disk?!?!?

2009-12-06 Thread Albert Hopkins
I tried repeating your experiment, sans NFS and NTFS, and while I did note that the modification timestamp on the file did not change, the contents of the file did (i.e. the filesystem changed). FWIW this is Debian bug #459703 (Google told me that). What I'm going to guess is happening in your