loop device: See man 8 mount and search for "The Loop Device". The loop device allows you to mount a file and make it look like a filesystem. Advantageous in some circumstances I'm sure, but don't quite know what those are.

Okay, see http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/ -- one use is to make a Linux partition in a dos file in order to run a

linux operating system that can be installed on and run from a dos system, i.e. msdos, pcdos, drdos, & win9x in dos mode.

See:

• http://www.linux-m68k.org/faq/howloopdev.html
• http://minix1.hampshire.edu/faq/mxfromlx.html
• http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man8/losetup.8.html
• http://www.geocities.com/rlcomp_1999/loop.html
• http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/
• http://www.tux.org/hypermail/linux-kernel/1999week20/0134.html
• http://bochs.sourceforge.net/doc/docbook/user/x1092.htm

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