Re: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] Patches to mount / loop device

[Anton A. <ai...@ca...>]

Hi,

At 17:06 17/07/2001, Richard Russon wrote:
>I've checked in a few changes to ntfs-driver-tng to support the
>mounting of loop devices.  Because the new (proto-)driver looks
>for the backup boot sector I've had to modify the loop driver
>and mount to support a size field, e.g.,
>
>   mount image /mnt -t ntfs -o loop,offset=32256,size=20971520

Great stuff! Can we expect to see the kernel patch in the kernel soon?

Anton


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