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authorLaurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>2008-03-26 12:11:53 +0100
committerJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>2008-04-21 09:50:08 +0200
commit476a4813cfddf7cf159956cc0e2d3c830c1507e3 (patch)
tree11c824363b8ea789ccb3c6f3b38320bcf79b3aa4 /include/linux/bio.h
parent22a9189fd073db3d03a4cf8b8c098aa207602de1 (diff)
loop: manage partitions in disk image
This patch allows to use loop device with partitionned disk image. Original behavior of loop is not modified. A new parameter is introduced to define how many partition we want to be able to manage per loop device. This parameter is "max_part". For instance, to manage 63 partitions / loop device, we will do: # modprobe loop max_part=63 # ls -l /dev/loop?* brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 0 2008-03-05 14:55 /dev/loop0 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 64 2008-03-05 14:55 /dev/loop1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 128 2008-03-05 14:55 /dev/loop2 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 192 2008-03-05 14:55 /dev/loop3 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 256 2008-03-05 14:55 /dev/loop4 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 320 2008-03-05 14:55 /dev/loop5 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 384 2008-03-05 14:55 /dev/loop6 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 448 2008-03-05 14:55 /dev/loop7 And to attach a raw partitionned disk image, the original losetup is used: # losetup -f etch.img # ls -l /dev/loop?* brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 0 2008-03-05 14:55 /dev/loop0 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 1 2008-03-05 14:57 /dev/loop0p1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 2 2008-03-05 14:57 /dev/loop0p2 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 5 2008-03-05 14:57 /dev/loop0p5 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 64 2008-03-05 14:55 /dev/loop1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 128 2008-03-05 14:55 /dev/loop2 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 192 2008-03-05 14:55 /dev/loop3 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 256 2008-03-05 14:55 /dev/loop4 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 320 2008-03-05 14:55 /dev/loop5 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 384 2008-03-05 14:55 /dev/loop6 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 448 2008-03-05 14:55 /dev/loop7 # mount /dev/loop0p1 /mnt # ls /mnt bench cdrom home lib mnt root srv usr bin dev initrd lost+found opt sbin sys var boot etc initrd.img media proc selinux tmp vmlinuz # umount /mnt # losetup -d /dev/loop0 Of course, the same behavior can be done using kpartx on a loop device, but modifying loop avoids to stack several layers of block device (loop + device mapper), this is a very light modification (40% of modifications are to manage the new parameter). Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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