Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270478AbTGPIpm (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2003 04:45:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270487AbTGPIpm (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2003 04:45:42 -0400 Received: from gandalf.avalon.ru ([195.209.229.227]:44715 "EHLO smtp.avalon.ru") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270478AbTGPIn5 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2003 04:43:57 -0400 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Subject: RE: Partitioned loop device.. X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6249.0 Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 12:59:43 +0400 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Partitioned loop device.. Thread-Index: AcNLFqtdn4SSHbleShSHsTvLDZ7TAQAXTZ7A From: "Dimitry V. Ketov" To: "Lars Marowsky-Bree" , "Kevin Corry" , Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 696 Lines: 16 > There is no difference. What makes /dev/loop1a worse than > /dev/hda1? It's just block devices, that's it. Yes, it is. But I meant its still impossible to use legacy fdisk to create that DM mapped partitions (or am I wrong?) > 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... MD - did you mean metadisks (software raids?) Dimitry. - 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/