Re: [PATCH] Modify loop device to be able to manage partitions of the disk image

[Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>]

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
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