Re: [PATCH] Modify loop device to be able to manage partitions of the disk image

From: Nick Piggin
Date: Thu Mar 06 2008 - 06:04:26 EST


On Thursday 06 March 2008 21:16, Laurent Vivier wrote:
> Le jeudi 06 mars 2008 Ã 20:57 +1100, Nick Piggin a Ãcrit :

> > Do you think we do something similar for drivers/block/brd.c too? I'd
> > like to try to maintain parity between them where possible...
>
> I think it is possible (I've the same patch for NBD too), but I think
> it is completely useless.

It's useful for testing, and for minimising the divergence in the
code.

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