From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 2 Apr 2003 21:37:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 2 Apr 2003 21:37:45 -0500 Received: from mail.casabyte.com ([209.63.254.226]:57357 "EHLO mail.1casabyte.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 2 Apr 2003 21:37:44 -0500 From: "Robert White" To: "Hua Zhong" , "Christoph Rohland" , "Daniel Egger" Cc: Subject: RE: PATCH: allow percentile size of tmpfs (2.5.66 / 2.4.20-pre2) Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 18:49:02 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4920.2300 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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".