From: "Dimitry V. Ketov" <Dimitry.Ketov@avalon.ru>
To: "Kevin Corry" <kevcorry@us.ibm.com>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: Partitioned loop device..
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 22:32:11 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1B7C89B8DCB084C809A22D7FEB90B3840AB@frodo.avalon.ru> (raw)
> You can already use Device-Mapper to create "partitions" on
> your loop devices,
You're right but I want _partitions_ but not "partitions" ;)
It should appears like a real hardware disk, not virtual one.
> so there's not much of a reason to add partitioning support
> to the loop
> driver itself.
There is a reason for teaching my students indeed :) that is why I ask.
> There are a variety of tools you can use to
> set them up: EVMS,
> LVM2, dmsetup, and I think there is/was a simple partitioning
> tool that uses
> DM (dmpartx?).
It's just completely different topic for the teaching ;)
next reply other threads:[~2003-07-15 18:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-15 18:32 Dimitry V. Ketov [this message]
2003-07-15 21:15 ` Partitioned loop device Lars Marowsky-Bree
2003-07-18 14:20 ` Christophe Saout
2003-07-18 19:10 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2003-07-18 23:57 ` Christophe Saout
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2003-07-16 8:59 Dimitry V. Ketov
2003-07-16 13:51 ` Kevin Corry
2003-07-15 8:46 Dimitry V. Ketov
2003-07-15 15:01 ` Kevin Corry
2003-07-15 15:53 ` Josh Litherland
2003-07-15 16:04 ` Kevin Corry
2003-07-15 16:05 ` Herbert Pötzl
2003-07-17 2:44 ` kernel
2003-07-15 7:10 Dimitry V. Ketov
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