Re: losetuping files in tmpfs fails?

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa _at_ zytor.com>]

Followup to:  <20020105215147.GH136 _at_ pervalidus>
By author:    =?iso-8859-1?B?RnLpZOlyaWMgTC4gVy4=?= Meunier <0 _at_ pervalidus.net>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On a side note, why do I need to use losetup -d after umount
> when /etc/mtab is a symlink to /proc/mounts ?
> 
> mount or loop "feature" ?
> 

/proc/mounts, unlike /etc/mtab, doesn't tell umount(8) that this was a
loopback created by mount(8) as opposed to a preexisting loopback
created by losetup(8).

	-hpa
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