Re: bug in loopback device (Linux version 2.6.0-test2)

From: Andries Brouwer (aebr@win.tue.nl)
Date: Wed Jul 30 2003 - 09:18:16 EST


On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 01:23:17PM +0200, Pilaszy Istvan wrote:

> I found a bug in the loopback device.

Not really.

If you setup a loop device on a file or other device,
then the block device involved is the loop device.
Any access to that same file or device not via the
loop device will give undesired results.

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