On Oct 8, 2007, at 8:40 AM, David Boyes wrote:


Why? That's a harder question. The legitimate case I've encountered is
with a partially written device driver that doesn't yet fill in all
the
device characteristics table info, but you still want to try it out.

Also, if you want to create an empty filesystem on a file that you
plan to mount as a loopback device.

Adam

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