Darren J Moffat wrote: > Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase 1.66 04/17/08 SMI > This information is Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems > 1. Introduction > 1.1. Project/Component Working Name: > lofi mount > 1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier: > Author: John Levon > 1.3 Date of This Document: > 29 April, 2008 > 4. Technical Description > 1. Introduction > > A long-standing RFE has been for direct support of loopback file > mounts in the mount(1m) utility. This case defines such a feature. > > A patch binding is requested.
Thanks for this -- I'm certainly someone who's want it. A couple of questions... Will the old 2 stage method using lofiadm(1M) still work unchanged? Prior to lofi/lofiadm, there was the fbk driver by J?rg Schilling which was used to mount an image from a file. This provided a one stage mount which could be included in /etc/vfstab. Just wondering if the team looked to see how that worked in case it might be useful? (My memory of it is now very hazy, but I think it used the backfsmount trick which was also used by cachefs.) It might be that it did what you are now proposing anyway. -- Andrew
