On 2003-07-15T22:32:11,
   "Dimitry V. Ketov" <Dimitry.Ketov@avalon.ru> said:

> > 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.

There is no difference. What makes /dev/loop1a worse than /dev/hda1?
It's just block devices, that's it.

I have hopes that the entire partitioning code etc will be ripped out in
2.7 in favour of full userspace discovery + DM, and that MD will hit the
same fate...


Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>

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