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> You can already use Device-Mapper to create "partitions" on > your loop devices, You're right but I want _partitions_ but not "partitions" ;) It should appears like a real hardware disk, not virtual one. > so there's not much of a reason to add partitioning support > to the loop > driver itself. There is a reason for teaching my students indeed :) that is why I ask. > There are a variety of tools you can use to > set them up: EVMS, > LVM2, dmsetup, and I think there is/was a simple partitioning > tool that uses > DM (dmpartx?). It's just completely different topic for the teaching ;) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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