Messages in this thread | | | Subject | RE: accessing loopback filesystem+partitions on a file | Date | Wed, 29 Jun 2005 08:12:44 +0100 | From | "Ian Pratt" <> |
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> basically, the thing that is missing (or i can't find it) > from linux is a driver with the ability to present [any] > block devices with their major+minor numbers as a > [fsck-]recogniseable block device with its own major number, > with the implicit ability to create minor numbers within it.
The easiest thing to use is the 'lomount' utility that comes with qemu.
http://www.dad-answers.com/qemu/utilities/QEMU-HD-Mounter/lomount/lomoun t.c
There's also kpartx which is part of device mapper, but its rather trickier to build.
I think we should pull lomount into our tree until kpartx becomes ubiquitous.
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