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Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 11:34:08 +0000
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To: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Modify loop device to be able to manage partitions of
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Laurent Vivier wrote:
> This patch allows to use loop device with partitionned disk image.
> 
> Original behavior of loop is not modified.
> 
> A new parameter is introduced to define how many partition we want to be
> able to manage per loop device. This parameter is "max_part".

I like it!
Shouldn't we set max_part to non zero by default though?

Hopefully I can throw away my loopback partition mounting script soon :)
http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/lomount.sh

cheers,
P?draig.
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