Yup, tmpfs doesn't provide some of the facilities which the
loop driver requires. Specifically, prepare_write() and
commit_write().
Probably it's not too hard to change loop to use generic_file_write(),
and it will then permit tmpfs file-backed loop mounts.
It's not obvious that there's a burning need to support loop-on-tmpfs
though, is there?
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