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| author | Karel Zak | 2016-04-22 13:14:12 +0200 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2016-04-22 13:14:12 +0200 |
| commit | d08b58c491031ce084f6b473300bbc2fd74d6c21 (patch) | |
| tree | dbc34f88a916335ab374b3aaf78d425098f6891f /sys-utils/mount.8 | |
| parent | mount: Handle EROFS before calling mount() syscall (diff) | |
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mount: add note about loopdev reuse to mount.8
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/sys-utils/mount.8 b/sys-utils/mount.8 index 3197c8e66..eb0dd988f 100644 --- a/sys-utils/mount.8 +++ b/sys-utils/mount.8 @@ -2931,6 +2931,10 @@ independently of You can also free a loop device by hand, using .BR "losetup \-d " or " umount \-d" . +Since util-linux v2.29 mount command re-uses the loop device rather than +initialize a new device if the same backing file is already mounted with the +same offset. + .SH RETURN CODES .B mount has the following return codes (the bits can be ORed): |