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From: Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386@yahoo.com.ar>
To: hadmut@danisch.de
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Partitions on a loopback block device?
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 11:24:28 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031201112428.3e92ce2c.vmlinuz386@yahoo.com.ar> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031201124034.GA32127@danisch.de>

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 13:40:34 +0100, hadmut@danisch.de wrote:
>Would it be possible to have a loopback blockdevice recognize
>partition tables and to provide partitions as any other block device?
>
>Obviously, naming is not very elegant, but /dev/loopa0 would be a nice
>analogon to /dev/hda0 and /dev/sda0

Hi,

try this patch.

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/ig/ccd/enhanced_loopback/patches

>
>regards
>Hadmut

chau,
 djgera


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  reply	other threads:[~2003-12-01 14:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-01 12:40 Partitions on a loopback block device? hadmut
2003-12-01 14:24 ` Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi [this message]
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2003-12-01 22:20 christophe varoqui

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