From: Kevin Corry <kevcorry@us.ibm.com>
To: "Dimitry V. Ketov" <Dimitry.Ketov@avalon.ru>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Partitioned loop device..
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 10:01:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200307151001.44218.kevcorry@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1B7C89B8DCB084C809A22D7FEB90B384E34B4@frodo.avalon.ru>
On Tuesday 15 July 2003 03:46, Dimitry V. Ketov wrote:
> Hello,
> Is there any (un)official patch for current stable (or
> development) kernel that makes loop device partitioned? I found one on
> the ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/ig/ccd/enhanced_loopback/ (it contains
> port of Scyld's partition enhancements), but it seems still needs a fix.
> In general I plan to use partitioned loop device to simulate real disks
> in linux labs, possibly with a help from Stephen Tweedie's testdrive
> fault simulator. I just wonder if partitionable/faultable loop device
> planned in the future official kernels, or it will be better to write a
> separate 'simulated disk' driver???
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Dimitry.
You can already use Device-Mapper to create "partitions" on your loop devices,
so there's not much of a reason to add partitioning support to the loop
driver itself. 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?).
--
Kevin Corry
kevcorry@us.ibm.com
http://evms.sourceforge.net/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-15 14:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-15 8:46 Partitioned loop device Dimitry V. Ketov
2003-07-15 15:01 ` Kevin Corry [this message]
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
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-07-16 8:59 Dimitry V. Ketov
2003-07-16 13:51 ` Kevin Corry
2003-07-15 18:32 Dimitry V. Ketov
2003-07-15 21:15 ` 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
2003-07-15 7:10 Dimitry V. Ketov
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