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From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>
Subject: Re: accessing loopback filesystem+partitions on a file
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 03:45:11 +0100
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On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 02:33:05AM +0100, Mark Williamson wrote:

> Apparently kpartx (from the multipath tools - 
> http://christophe.varoqui.free.fr/wiki/wakka.php?wiki=Home) can use the 
> device mapper to create block devices for each partition.

 ah HA.

 well, given that phil has modified his d-i xen stuff to utilise lvm
 partitions (as the disk(!)) because i told him how abominably slow
 loopback is, this might actually turn out to be the best way to go.

 muhahahah.

 l.

 p.s. http://hands.com/d-i.  not officially announced.  don't blame me if
 it all goes horribly wrong.  search for "xen0".  another way to install
 xen guest OSes that does NOT involve using debootstrap.