[Gllug] Raw Partitions

[Bruce Richardson]

On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 06:05:47PM +0100, Martin wrote:
> Christian Smith wrote:
> >What ioctls would be needed?
> 
> 
> Well, for one, unless I'm _really_ out of touch.  You can't write to a 
> loop device.  File systems so mounted are read-only.  No?

No, not at all.  Loopback files are very commonly used with UML, for
example, which would not be possible if they wre read-only.  Several of
the small/demo Linux distributions use a loopback file for swap or as
somewhere to expand compressed filesystems into.

-- 
Bruce

I must admit that the existence of Disneyland (which I know is real)
proves that we are not living in Judea in AD 50. -- Philip K. Dick
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 261 bytes
Desc: Digital signature
URL: <http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/gllug/attachments/20051124/47381261/attachment.pgp>
-------------- next part --------------
-- 
Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at gllug.org.uk
http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug