From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: BlaisorBlade <blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [NEW FEATURE]Partitions on loop device for 2.6
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 16:04:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FF5DCE8.4020008@tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200312241341.23523.blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it>
BlaisorBlade wrote:
> NEED:
> I have the need to loop mount files containing not plain filesystems, but
> whole disk images.
>
> This is especially needed when using User-mode-linux, since to run any distro
> installer you must partition the virtual disks(and on the host, the backing
> file of the disk contains a partition table).
>
> Currently this could be done by specifying a positive offset, but letting the
> kernel partition code handle this is better, isn't it? Would you ever accept
> this feature into stock kernel?
UML is on my list of things to learn (as opposed to "try casually and
ignore") but have you considered using NBD?
--
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
CTO TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-02 21:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-24 17:20 [NEW FEATURE]Partitions on loop device for 2.6 BlaisorBlade
2003-12-24 18:39 ` Sean Estabrooks
2003-12-24 19:04 ` BlaisorBlade
2003-12-24 21:03 ` Sean Estabrooks
2003-12-25 21:03 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-12-30 7:26 ` Tomas Szepe
2004-01-02 21:04 ` Bill Davidsen [this message]
2004-01-03 10:56 ` Maciej Zenczykowski
2004-01-03 18:05 ` BlaisorBlade
2004-01-07 22:15 ` bill davidsen
[not found] <010a01c415a4$26fc1110$d100000a@sbs2003.local>
2004-03-30 21:37 ` Bill Davidsen
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