Re: [SLUG] mounting off a loop device in 2.2.12

[Herbert Xu <herbert@nospam.gondor.apana.org.au>]

Shuv Chakraborty <schakrab@nospam.nms.otc.telstra.com.au> wrote:
> this is the error i am getting when i try to mount a iso image.

> #mount -t vfat -o loop /home/schakrab/shuv.iso /mnt/cdrom
> ioctl: LOOP_SET_FD: Invalid argument

You can't loop mount over a file that's on an NFS file system or any other
file system without bmap support.  Look in your kernel log for the real error
message.
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