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Message-Id: <E1JXbBo-0000ix-57@be1.7eggert.dyndns.org>
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:56:39 +0100
From: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@....de>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@...l.net>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Modify loop device to be able to manage partitions of the disk image
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au> wrote:
> On Thursday 06 March 2008 21:16, Laurent Vivier wrote:
>> Le jeudi 06 mars 2008 à 20:57 +1100, Nick Piggin a écrit :
>> > Do you think we do something similar for drivers/block/brd.c too? I'd
>> > like to try to maintain parity between them where possible...
>>
>> I think it is possible (I've the same patch for NBD too), but I think
>> it is completely useless.
>
> It's useful for testing, and for minimising the divergence in the
> code.
Maybe there should be a common mechanism to use partitions on any block
device. Maybe there is - I have dark memories about the device mapper
being able to parse partition tables, and plans on moving partition
support to userspace.
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