Messages in this thread | | | From | Kevin Corry <> | Subject | Re: Partitioned loop device.. | Date | Tue, 15 Jul 2003 10:01:44 -0500 |
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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/
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