From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
To: Lucio Crusca <lucio@sulweb.org>
Cc: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] losetup: support for physical devices
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 21:08:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150114200807.GG28019@x2.net.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m96ard$qu8$1@ger.gmane.org>
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 06:59:58PM +0100, Lucio Crusca wrote:
> During a disaster recovery I found that losetup either
>
> 1. does not support creating loop devices that target physical devices. In
> this case I think there exists a compelling reason to support them
> (http://serverfault.com/questions/659484) and this bug report is a wishlist
> bug
>
> or
>
> 2. it does support physical devices, but it is an undocumented feature (at
> least in the manpage) and the warning it issues is misleading beacuse it
> makes you think it doesn't support them ("losetup: /dev/sdc2: warning: file
> smaller than 512 bytes, the loop device maybe be useless or invisible for
> system tools"). In this case this could be a documentation bug.
commit b048b8af3a5568c90f6e0c2d56f6cb399dedb0d1
Author: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Date: Mon May 13 11:00:47 2013 +0200
losetup: use warn_size() for regular files only
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Karel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-14 20:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-14 17:59 [BUG] losetup: support for physical devices Lucio Crusca
2015-01-14 20:08 ` Karel Zak [this message]
2015-01-14 20:13 ` Karel Zak
2015-01-26 3:21 ` Dale R. Worley
2015-01-26 5:06 ` Peter Cordes
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