lofi mount [PSARC/2008/290 FastTrack timeout 05/06/2008]

[Nicolas Williams]

On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 08:37:23PM +0100, John Levon wrote:
> On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 02:47:24AM -0700, Dan Price wrote:
> > Two final questions: (1) is there any potential interaction with fsck(1m)
> > here?  In other words, if the file we're looping back represents an FS
> > which requires an fsck stage, how will that work?
> 
> Exactly like it does with lofiadm+mount today (or any direct mount
> invocation): it'll mount without checking.

But if you can reference a lofi mount from vfstab then it should be
possible to fsck a file-backed UFS filesystem.  That might mean changing
fsck(1M).  OTOH, I think this feature is primarily needed for use with
hsfs images, so not being able to fsck UFS lofi mounts without using
lofiadm(1M) sounds tolerable to me.

Nico
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