On Thu, 18 Dec 2008, Jan Setje-Eilers wrote: > > So, how does this work for non / files? I didn't think the lofi > devices would work read/write either for somewhat similar reasons. Is > there some sort of copy on write that happens there?
Non-root file systems (/usr and /mnt/misc) are read-only. Compressed lofi doesn't do read/write, it just provides read-only support since supporting read/write is a far trickier problem to solve for little benefit. Alok
