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Message-Id: <1204803914.4325.16.camel@frecb07144> Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:45:14 +0100 From: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@...l.net> To: Pádraig Brady <P@...igBrady.com> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Modify loop device to be able to manage partitions of the disk image Le jeudi 06 mars 2008 à 11:34 +0000, Pádraig Brady a écrit : > Laurent Vivier wrote: > > This patch allows to use loop device with partitionned disk image. > > > > Original behavior of loop is not modified. > > > > A new parameter is introduced to define how many partition we want to be > > able to manage per loop device. This parameter is "max_part". > > I like it! Thanks, > Shouldn't we set max_part to non zero by default though? Well, the problem is that you modify the default minor number of loop device if max_part != 0, so I'm afraid of compatibility problems: with max_part=0, loop0 is minor 0, loop1 is minor 1, with max_part=63, loop0 is minor 0, loop1 is minor 64, whereas loop0p1 is minor 1. > Hopefully I can throw away my loopback partition mounting script soon :) > http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/lomount.sh > > cheers, > Pádraig. > Regards, Laurent -- ----------------- Laurent.Vivier@...l.net ------------------ "Programmers who subconsciously view themselves as artists will enjoy what they do and will do it better." D. Knuth -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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