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From: "Pádraig Brady" <P@draigBrady.com>
To: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Modify loop device to be able to manage partitions of the disk image
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 11:34:08 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47CFD6B0.4020602@draigBrady.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1204796612842-git-send-email-Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>

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!
Shouldn't we set max_part to non zero by default though?

Hopefully I can throw away my loopback partition mounting script soon :)
http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/lomount.sh

cheers,
Pádraig.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-03-06 11:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-06  9:43 Laurent Vivier
2008-03-06  9:57 ` Nick Piggin
2008-03-06 10:16   ` Laurent Vivier
2008-03-06 10:56     ` Nick Piggin
2008-03-06 11:29       ` Laurent Vivier
2008-03-06 11:34 ` Pádraig Brady [this message]
2008-03-06 11:45   ` Laurent Vivier
2008-03-06 12:21     ` Pádraig Brady
2008-03-06 12:44       ` Laurent Vivier
2008-03-06 12:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-03-06 12:55   ` Laurent Vivier
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     [not found] ` <a4l3D-4hn-11@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <a4lmN-4Xt-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <a4m9d-6iD-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
2008-03-07 11:56       ` Bodo Eggert
2008-03-07 12:08         ` Bart Van Assche
2008-03-07 12:13         ` Laurent Vivier

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