From: "Bart Van Assche" <bart.vanassche@gmail.com>
To: 7eggert@gmx.de
Cc: "Nick Piggin" <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
"Laurent Vivier" <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Modify loop device to be able to manage partitions of the disk image
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 13:08:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e2e108260803070408l4600ae4cx1ecd261318cb63c6@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1JXbBo-0000ix-57@be1.7eggert.dyndns.org>
On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> wrote:
> Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> > On Thursday 06 March 2008 21:16, Laurent Vivier wrote:
> >> Le jeudi 06 mars 2008 à 20:57 +1100, Nick Piggin a écrit :
>
> >> > Do you think we do something similar for drivers/block/brd.c too? I'd
> >> > like to try to maintain parity between them where possible...
> >>
> >> I think it is possible (I've the same patch for NBD too), but I think
> >> it is completely useless.
> >
> > It's useful for testing, and for minimising the divergence in the
> > code.
>
> Maybe there should be a common mechanism to use partitions on any block
> device. Maybe there is - I have dark memories about the device mapper
> being able to parse partition tables, and plans on moving partition
> support to userspace.
It's easy to add partition support to the loopback device. A patch
that realizes this was already published in 2004. See also
http://lwn.net/Articles/110426/.
Bart Van Assche.
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2008-03-07 11:56 ` Bodo Eggert
2008-03-07 12:08 ` Bart Van Assche [this message]
2008-03-07 12:13 ` Laurent Vivier
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
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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