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Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 12:21:13 +0000 From: Pádraig Brady <P@...igBrady.com> To: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@...l.net> CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Modify loop device to be able to manage partitions of the disk image Laurent Vivier wrote: > 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: I understand that. But who would care about specific minor numbers? Hmm how does your patch relate to this: http://lwn.net/Articles/110426/ As an aside, I also notice on my system from the following output that the limit of the number of partitions for a sata/scsi disk seems to be 15: $ ls -la /dev/sd[ab] brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 2007-11-13 10:35 /dev/sda brw-rw---- 1 root plugdev 8, 16 2008-03-06 12:11 /dev/sdb Pádraig. -- 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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