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

["Pádraig Brady" <P@draigBrady.com>]

Laurent Vivier wrote:
> 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:

I understand that. But who would care about specific minor numbers?
Hmm how does your patch relate to this: http://lwn.net/Articles/110426/

As an aside, I also notice on my system from the following output that
the limit of the number of partitions for a sata/scsi disk seems to be 15:

$ ls -la /dev/sd[ab]
brw-rw---- 1 root disk    8,  0 2007-11-13 10:35 /dev/sda
brw-rw---- 1 root plugdev 8, 16 2008-03-06 12:11 /dev/sdb

Pádraig.