Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763566AbYCGL45 (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Mar 2008 06:56:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759142AbYCGL4s (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Mar 2008 06:56:48 -0500 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.174]:59491 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759117AbYCGL4r (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Mar 2008 06:56:47 -0500 From: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Modify loop device to be able to manage partitions of the disk image To: Nick Piggin , Laurent Vivier , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Reply-To: 7eggert@gmx.de Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:56:39 +0100 References: User-Agent: KNode/0.10.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit Message-Id: X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner-Information: See www.mailscanner.info for information X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner-From: 7eggert@gmx.de X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+LbBoDeAqXoIUXlisgm+f0CErJTUQM0bsAe1o mNlQzI8YjzGduwbww3Q5SZmJri9QqYk72z7YD0qTDH4KXWeS2b ryWhsHq59GIE+6DrthjRQ== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 971 Lines: 17 Nick Piggin wrote: > On Thursday 06 March 2008 21:16, Laurent Vivier wrote: >> Le jeudi 06 mars 2008 ? 20:57 +1100, Nick Piggin a ?crit : >> > Do you think we do something similar for drivers/block/brd.c too? I'd >> > like to try to maintain parity between them where possible... >> >> I think it is possible (I've the same patch for NBD too), but I think >> it is completely useless. > > It's useful for testing, and for minimising the divergence in the > code. Maybe there should be a common mechanism to use partitions on any block device. Maybe there is - I have dark memories about the device mapper being able to parse partition tables, and plans on moving partition support to userspace. -- 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/