On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 08:51:58AM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 12/02/2011 04:07 AM, Petr Uzel wrote: > | If you load loop module without max_part argument, the loop devices > | will have their ext_range sysfs attributes == 1 (here on kernel-3.1), > | so parted won't attempt to inform the kernel about the partitions. Do > | I miss something? > > I get 256 here on 3.2-rc3.
Me too, on 3.2-rcX. The difference to 3.1 is likely linux kernel commit e03c8dd14915fabc101aa495828d58598dc5af98 https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/8/15/185 So for older kernels, the (ugly) parsing of loop module params is necessary. Petr -- Petr Uzel IRC: ptr_uzl @ freenode
