Re: PROBLEM: Loopback mounting a file on an NFS partition hangs NFS client

From: Wayne Whitney (whitney@math.berkeley.edu)
Date: Fri Oct 13 2000 - 22:41:10 EDT

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On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Andi Kleen wrote:

> That would be weird, because 2.2 does not support loopback creation on
> NFS (and has an explicit check for it)

Hmm, now that you jar my memory, I remember that I had actually loopback
mounted an iso filesystem image on one machine and then NFS exported that
filesystem to another. So this was the reverse of the situation of the
recent crash :-) Sorry about the confusion.

Cheers,
Wayne

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