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From: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com>
To: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>
Cc: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] grub-install: Improve support for partitioned loop devices.
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 10:25:53 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140126102553.3ad59420@opensuse.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ0EP42eRDfUyV=91w3y6uZ8Xad=Aut4RgQm-s4pm4Zntk5k8Q@mail.gmail.com>

В Sun, 26 Jan 2014 01:20:09 -0500
Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> пишет:

> On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 12:16 AM, Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com> wrote:
> > В Sat, 25 Jan 2014 20:41:00 -0500
> > Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> пишет:
> >
> >> * grub-core/osdep/linux/getroot.c (grub_util_part_to_disk): Detect
> >> /dev/loopX as being the parent of /dev/loopXpY.
> >
> > Those devices are normally device-mapper ones (created by kpartx) and
> > grub already detects parent by following device-mapper tree. What
> > exact problem are you trying to solve?
> 
> The kernel supports partitioned loop devices without device mapper.
> These can be set up using losetup -P, or by calling partx from
> util-linux.

Thank you, was not aware of it.


      reply	other threads:[~2014-01-26  6:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-26  1:41 [PATCH] grub-install: Improve support for partitioned loop devices Mike Gilbert
2014-01-26  5:16 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2014-01-26  6:20   ` Mike Gilbert
2014-01-26  6:25     ` Andrey Borzenkov [this message]

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