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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: add GENHD_FL_UNPARTITIONABLE
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On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 05:32:37PM +0200, Tejun Heo wrote:
> There are cases where suppressing partition scan is useful - e.g. for
> lo devices

Err, partitioning loop devices is extremly useful.