RE: PATCH: allow percentile size of tmpfs (2.5.66 / 2.4.20-pre2)

["Hua Zhong" <hzhong@cisco.com>]

Yes, you are absolutely right...

> I presume the below was a typo and In the second mount it should be
> 
> "mount -t ext2 -o loop /mnt/tmp/A /mnt/loopback"
> 
> instead of just
> 
> "mount -t ext2 -o loop /mnt/tmp /mnt/loopback"
> 
> Else wise the directory name "/mnt/tmp" would most certainly be a 
> bad target
> for a loopback mount.
> 
> Rob.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
> [mailto:linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org]On Behalf Of Hua Zhong
> Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 11:55 PM
> To: Christoph Rohland; Daniel Egger
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: RE: PATCH: allow percentile size of tmpfs (2.5.66 /
> 2.4.20-pre2)
> 
> 
> mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /mnt/tmp
> extract file A to /mnt/tmp/A
> mount -t ext2 -o loop /mnt/tmp /mnt/loopback
> 
> You'll get "ioctl: LOOP_SET_FD: Invalid argument".
> 
>