On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 05:22:19PM -0700, Ryan Goodfellow wrote: > ed, > > thank you for responding so quickly. The reason I am needing loopback > devices is I am trying to use the lx zone as a place to mount ext2 filesystem > data (with the usual mount -o loop target_fs target_dir) and transfer files > the files from the ext2 system into the global zone. >
well, unless you're using fuse with an ext2 plugin, this isn't going to work. ext2 is a linux filesystem. with the lx brand, we're running a linux userland on a solaris kernel, and the solaris kernel doesn't have support for ext2 (insert GPL vs CDDL flame war here). so even if you had loopback devies, you still wouldn't be able to mount an ext2 filesystem. your options are: - mount the ext2 filesystem on a real linux system and copy the data over to your linux branded zone. (you could install a real linux system on metal, or in an xvm domU on the same machine that has the lx branded zone). - try using fuse to mount the filesysem via userland. ed
