From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263711AbTLAO0t (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Dec 2003 09:26:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263765AbTLAO0t (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Dec 2003 09:26:49 -0500 Received: from smtp001.mail.ukl.yahoo.com ([217.12.11.32]:4214 "HELO smtp001.mail.ukl.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S263711AbTLAO0s (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Dec 2003 09:26:48 -0500 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 11:24:28 -0300 From: Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi To: hadmut@danisch.de Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Partitions on a loopback block device? Message-Id: <20031201112428.3e92ce2c.vmlinuz386@yahoo.com.ar> In-Reply-To: <20031201124034.GA32127@danisch.de> References: <20031201124034.GA32127@danisch.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i486-slackware-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 13:40:34 +0100, hadmut@danisch.de wrote: >Would it be possible to have a loopback blockdevice recognize >partition tables and to provide partitions as any other block device? > >Obviously, naming is not very elegant, but /dev/loopa0 would be a nice >analogon to /dev/hda0 and /dev/sda0 Hi, try this patch. ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/ig/ccd/enhanced_loopback/patches > >regards >Hadmut chau, djgera -- Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi ( djgera ) http://www.vmlinuz.com.ar http://www.djgera.com.ar KeyID: 0x1B8C330D Key fingerprint = 0CAA D5D4 CD85 4434 A219 76ED 39AB 221B 1B8C 330D