Re: [PATCH] isofs: mounting to regular file may succeed

From: Kirill Kuvaldin
Date: Sun Jul 15 2007 - 05:36:36 EST


On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 09:16:51PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>
> On Jul 14 2007 03:47, Kirill Kuvaldin wrote:
> >
> >We then can mount it to a regular file:
>
> Wow, this is news to me. Since when is it possible to mount files to files?
>

It is possible to mount a regular file to another one with --bind.
The problem in question is that mounting a malformed ISO 9660 image to a
directory fails, but to a regular file - succeeds.

Kirill
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