Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Modify loop device to be able to manage partitions of the disk image | | From | Laurent Vivier <> | | Date | Fri, 07 Mar 2008 13:13:56 +0100 |
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Le vendredi 07 mars 2008 à 12:56 +0100, Bodo Eggert a écrit : > Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote: > > On Thursday 06 March 2008 21:16, Laurent Vivier wrote: > >> Le jeudi 06 mars 2008 à 20:57 +1100, Nick Piggin a écrit : > > >> > Do you think we do something similar for drivers/block/brd.c too? I'd > >> > like to try to maintain parity between them where possible... > >> > >> I think it is possible (I've the same patch for NBD too), but I think > >> it is completely useless. > > > > It's useful for testing, and for minimising the divergence in the > > code. > > Maybe there should be a common mechanism to use partitions on any block > device. Maybe there is - I have dark memories about the device mapper
The mechanism exists: the driver must call alloc_disk() with a value != 1. This is what is modifying this patch.
> being able to parse partition tables, and plans on moving partition > support to userspace.
This is kpartx.
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