Re: [PATCH] Modify loop device to be able to manage partitions ofthe disk image

From: Pádraig Brady
Date: Thu Mar 06 2008 - 06:44:21 EST


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,
Pádraig.
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