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SubjectRe: [Patch] Cleanup struct gendisk registration, 2.3.40-pre1
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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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