On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 12:25:53PM +0530, Ajay Jain wrote: > What is a loopback device? Why is a ramdisk, with an ext2 file system > called a loopback device? It isn't. It's called a ramdisk. A loopback device is a normal file used as a block device. > You can make an ext2 file system dump on your > host, but you can not create a yaffs file system dump on your host, what > is the criterion? You can dump *any* filesystem: tar is your friend. Erik -- They're all fools. Don't worry. Darwin may be slow, but he'll eventually get them. -- Matthew Lammers in alt.sysadmin.recovery
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