Disregard this. Apologies for flooding but SSHFS mounted via FUSE on the same kernel allows read/write mounting of loopback images. -Michael On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 10:03 +1200, Michael Fincham wrote: > It may yet be a kernel issue. Will test further and advise. > > -Michael > > On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 09:50 +1200, Michael Fincham wrote: > > Hi Avati, list, > > > > I've done a bit more testing with some other FUSE filesystems (fusesmb, > > mountlo) and they both support loop-mounting read/write, so I think we > > can rule out it being a FUSE problem. > > > > Any further ideas? > > > > -Michael > > > > On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 21:24 +0530, Anand Avati wrote: > > > Michael, > > > this seems to be a limitation of FUSE itself, because it is > > > mmap()'ing a file in read-write mode, which seems to have a problem in > > > fuse. I will soon confirm if this is the same cause. > > > > > > avati > > > > > > 2007/8/15, Michael Fincham <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > Has anyone had success with loop mounting a file stored on a > > > glusterfs > > > volume? > > > > > > administrator@vs02:/mnt/temp$ sudo losetup -f file.img > > > ioctl: LOOP_SET_FD: Invalid argument > > > > > > I get this error but the same image works fine on an ext2 > > > partition. > > > > > > I've discussed this a little on the IRC room, and apparently > > > it's being > > > investigated, but I figured I'd ask if anyone else has come up > > > against it > > > and has a short-term solution. > > > > > > Thanks everyone, esp. glusterfs devs ;) > > > > > > -- > > > -Michael Fincham > > > Unleash Technology Solutions > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Gluster-devel mailing list > > > Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxx > > > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into > > > account Hofstadter's Law. > > > > > > -- Hofstadter's Law -- -Michael Fincham <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Unleash Technology Solutions
