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>> I still don't get why you can't just mount the file itself...
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> Because the file is not a block device.
I thought the whole idea of the "device file" abstraction is that
accessing an entire device is no different from accessing a regular
file. And, if that's the case, you'd expect storing a filesystem inside
a file to be no different than storing a filesystem on a device.
And yet, it *is* different - one automatically works, the other requires
you to jump through hoops. Or, loops, in this case...
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