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Message-ID: <47CFD6B0.4020602@draigBrady.com>
Date:	Thu, 6 Mar 2008 11:34:08 +0000
From:	Pádraig Brady <P@...igBrady.com>
To:	Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@...l.net>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Modify loop device to be able to manage partitions of
 the disk image

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!
Shouldn't we set max_part to non zero by default though?

Hopefully I can throw away my loopback partition mounting script soon :)
http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/lomount.sh

cheers,
Pádraig.
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