From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932320AbWGXXT5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Jul 2006 19:19:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932323AbWGXXT4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Jul 2006 19:19:56 -0400 Received: from pfepc.post.tele.dk ([195.41.46.237]:11137 "EHLO pfepc.post.tele.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932320AbWGXXT4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Jul 2006 19:19:56 -0400 Subject: loopback blockdevice driver partition support From: Kasper Sandberg To: LKML Mailinglist Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 01:19:52 +0200 Message-Id: <1153783192.11477.7.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org hello.. i was wondering if someone may have done some work to make the loopback driver support partitions.. i found that a guy had written a nice script that used sfdisk and dmsetup to use device mapper on a loopback image of an entire harddrive (using DOS partition table ofcourse) to create device mapper "partitions". though this doesent quite meet my requirements, as i need to read an image of an amiga disk.. therefore it would seem like a good idea to make the loopback driver work with linux's partition table support, since it already supports this. if anyone has done some work in this, please mail me, and possibly i can continue it if wanted. just want to know if anyone already has done something like it before i try at it myself.. mvh. Kasper Sandberg