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- From: casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik)
- Subject: Re: Loopback mounts not working; why not?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.093130.20528@fwi.uva.nl>
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- Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
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- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 09:31:30 GMT
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- 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.
-
- man lofs says:
-
- NAME
- lofs - loopback virtual file system
-
- CONFIG
- options LOFS
-
- SYNOPSIS
- #include <sys/mount.h>
- mount(MOUNT_LOFS, virtual, flags, dir);
-
-
- Which documents did you use?
-
- Casper
-