- published: 20 Sep 2015
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In Unix-like operating systems, a loop device, vnd (vnode disk), or lofi (loopback file interface) is a pseudo-device that makes a file accessible as a block device.
Before use, a loop device must be connected to an existing file in the filesystem. The association provides the user with an API that allows the file to be used in place of a block special file (cf. device file system). Thus, if the file contains an entire file system, the file may then be mounted as if it were a disk device.
Files of this kind are often used for CD ISO images and floppy disc images. Mounting a file containing a filesystem via such a loop mount makes the files within that filesystem accessible. They appear in the mount point directory.
A loop device may allow some kind of data elaboration during this redirection. For example, the device may be the unencrypted version of an encrypted file. In such a case, the file associated with a loop device may be another pseudo-device. This is mostly useful when this device contains an encrypted file system. If supported, the loop device is in this case the decrypted version of the original encrypted file and can therefore be mounted as if it were a normal filesystem.
Lofi by Pornorama
I know it's gone
Before you've had one.
I'm aware of what you've done,
I'm sure you'll catch another one
For yeah, yeah yeah yeah
'I'm acting Lofi 'cause you can't see I'm there, no one is out there except for
Me' she said.
I know you're gone
For I've had another one
Still I think it's wrong
For you've had your other ones
For yeah, yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah
'I'm acting Lofi 'cause you can't see I'm there, no one is out here except for
Me' she said.
To the left side,
To the right side
Are you in, are you out,
Are you left behind?
Should I fake it,
Is it true:
Are you out now?
For yeah, yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah
'I'm acting Lofi 'cause you can't see I'm there, no one is out here except for