Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269685AbTGOVDF (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2003 17:03:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269688AbTGOVDF (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2003 17:03:05 -0400 Received: from gate.in-addr.de ([212.8.193.158]:11395 "EHLO mx.in-addr.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269685AbTGOVCx (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2003 17:02:53 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 23:15:37 +0200 From: Lars Marowsky-Bree To: "Dimitry V. Ketov" , Kevin Corry , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Partitioned loop device.. Message-ID: <20030715211537.GQ29748@marowsky-bree.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="fDP66DSfTvWAYVew" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Ctuhulu: HASTUR Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1491 Lines: 49 --fDP66DSfTvWAYVew Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2003-07-15T22:32:11, "Dimitry V. Ketov" said: > > You can already use Device-Mapper to create "partitions" on=20 > > your loop devices,=20 > You're right but I want _partitions_ but not "partitions" ;) > It should appears like a real hardware disk, not virtual one. There is no difference. What makes /dev/loop1a worse than /dev/hda1? It's just block devices, that's it. I have hopes that the entire partitioning code etc will be ripped out in 2.7 in favour of full userspace discovery + DM, and that MD will hit the same fate... Sincerely, Lars Marowsky-Br=E9e --=20 SuSE Labs - Research & Development, SuSE Linux AG =20 "If anything can go wrong, it will." "Chance favors the prepared (mind)." -- Capt. Edward A. Murphy -- Louis Pasteur --fDP66DSfTvWAYVew Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/FG74udf3XQV4S2cRAme7AJ9eIfCd2su7pGjf2TxD2RfJJhfaBACfbMfO iqv7tchJ94E/IufCr6yUspg= =WG+A -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --fDP66DSfTvWAYVew-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/