On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 04:10:17PM +0100, Andrew Gabriel wrote: > > 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. > > Will the old 2 stage method using lofiadm(1M) still work unchanged?
Yes. > 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. I haven't looked at this. regards john
