From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 11:14:12 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: mount: add note about loopdev reuse to mount.8
X-Git-Tag: v2.29-rc1~272
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d08b58c491031ce084f6b473300bbc2fd74d6c21;p=thirdparty%2Futil-linux.git

mount: add note about loopdev reuse to mount.8

Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/sys-utils/mount.8 b/sys-utils/mount.8
index 3197c8e665..eb0dd988fa 100644
--- a/sys-utils/mount.8
+++ b/sys-utils/mount.8
@@ -2931,6 +2931,10 @@ independently of
 You can also free a loop device by hand, using
 .BR "losetup \-d " or " umount \-d" .
 
+Since util-linux v2.29 mount command re-uses the loop device rather than
+initialize a new device if the same backing file is already mounted with the
+same offset.
+
 .SH RETURN CODES
 .B mount
 has the following return codes (the bits can be ORed):