From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269270AbTGOSQu (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2003 14:16:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269291AbTGOSQt (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2003 14:16:49 -0400 Received: from gandalf.avalon.ru ([195.209.229.227]:40251 "EHLO smtp.avalon.ru") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269270AbTGOSQa convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2003 14:16:30 -0400 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Subject: RE: Partitioned loop device.. X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6249.0 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 22:32:11 +0400 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Partitioned loop device.. Thread-Index: AcNK40qD45bUrwpqSkeeJoV6uaWu1QAGtyEQ From: "Dimitry V. Ketov" To: "Kevin Corry" , Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > 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 ;)