RE: accessing loopback filesystem+partitions on a file

[Ian Pratt]

> basically, the thing that is missing (or i can't find it) 
> from linux is a driver with the ability to present [any] 
> block devices with their major+minor numbers as a 
> [fsck-]recogniseable block device with its own major number, 
> with the implicit ability to create minor numbers within it.

The easiest thing to use is the 'lomount' utility that comes with qemu.

http://www.dad-answers.com/qemu/utilities/QEMU-HD-Mounter/lomount/lomoun
t.c

There's also kpartx which is part of device mapper, but its rather
trickier to build.

I think we should pull lomount into our tree until kpartx becomes
ubiquitous.

Ian
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