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- From: randy@megatek.com (Randy Davis)
- Subject: Re: Loopback mounts not working; why not?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.233057.19513@megatek.com>
- Sender: randy@megatek.com (Randy Davis)
- Reply-To: randy@megatek.com
- Organization: Megatek Corporation, San Diego, California
- References: <JIK.92Nov6132019@pit-manager.mit.edu> <JIK.92Nov9124104@pit-manager.mit.edu>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 23:30:57 GMT
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- In article <JIK.92Nov9124104@pit-manager.mit.edu> jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:
- |Thanks go out to everyone who pointed out to me in E-mail that
- |loopback mounts were not working for me because I don't have "options
- |LOFS" in my kernel's config file.
- |
- |What I don't understand is why none of the documentation I pored over
- |mentioned that it was a kernel configuration option or mentioned
- |kernel configuration in the "SEE ALSO" section.
- |
- |I guess I was just supposed to KNOW....
-
- Well, actually, the generic kernel has LOFS compiled in, by default. Since
- you, or someone else administering the machine, must have removed it if you
- aren't running the generic kernel, YOU are supposed to *know*... :-) Not
- really something that you can blame the Sun documentation about, although I
- agree with lots of complaints about the docs.
-
- Randy Davis Email: randy@megatek.com
- Corporate Network and System Administrator megatek!randy@uunet.uu.net
- Megatek Corporation, San Diego, California ucsd!megatek.uucp!randy
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