Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Jul 2003 23:15:37 +0200 | From | Lars Marowsky-Bree <> | Subject | Re: Partitioned loop device.. |
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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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