roland wrote:
partitions on loop or device-mapper devices ?
you can use kpartx tool for this.
bryn m. reeves told me, that it's probably poissible to create udev
rules that will automatically create partition maps when a new loop
device is setup, which is better than adding partitioning logig into
dm-loop for example.
It is certainly possible to create a partitionable RAID device from a
loop device. Should be possible to use nbd as well, but I can't seem to
get nbd to work on 2.6.21-rc (my working system runs 2.6.17).
example:
kpartx -a /dev/mapper/loop0
# ls /dev/mapper/loop0*
/dev/mapper/loop0 /dev/mapper/loop0p1 /dev/mapper/loop0p2
/dev/mapper/loop0p3
i have seen a patch for loop.c doing this, though. search the archives
for this
regards
roland
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 02:33:14PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
Correction: current ABI is crap. To set the thing up you need to open
it and issue an ioctl. Which is a bloody bad idea, for obvious
reasons...
Agreed. What would be a right way? Global device ala ptmx/tun/tap?
New syscall? Something else?
OG.
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