Messages in this thread | | | From | Keith Owens <> | Subject | Re: [Patch] Cleanup struct gendisk registration, 2.3.40-pre1 | Date | Mon, 17 Jan 2000 14:55:11 +1100 |
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On Mon, 17 Jan 2000 00:37:16 +0100 (CET), Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> wrote: >In our example the per-blockdevice callback should >convert the dev from hda2 to hda and to add a 15000 wide offset to the >blocknr.
That assumes a fixed offset and contiguous block mapping. Is there not a similar problem with loopback files? That is, /dev/hda2 block 1000 is /mnt/loop1 block 17. No guarantee of contiguous mapping there. Or has something else already fixed the loopback ambiguity?
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