On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 08:12:34PM -0700, Sean Bruno wrote: > I found today, that I was unable to mount or detect partitions in a loop > back device that I had configured via losetup. > > Was there any discussion on the LKML about this patch or is there anyone > "championing" it into the kernel? > http://lwn.net/Articles/274113/ I see the patch in Linus's tree: commit 476a4813cfddf7cf159956cc0e2d3c830c1507e3 Author: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@xxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Mar 26 12:11:53 2008 +0100 loop: manage partitions in disk image and it works for me: # ./losetup -f -s /root/kzak/disk.img /dev/loop0 # ls -la /dev/loop0* brw-r----- 1 root disk 7, 0 2008-08-21 11:34 /dev/loop0 brw-r----- 1 root disk 7, 1 2008-08-21 11:56 /dev/loop0p1 brw-r----- 1 root disk 7, 2 2008-08-21 11:56 /dev/loop0p2 brw-r----- 1 root disk 7, 3 2008-08-21 11:56 /dev/loop0p3 # mount /dev/loop0p1 /mnt # ls -la /mnt total 21 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 2008-08-21 11:52 . drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 2008-07-14 10:07 .. drwx------ 2 root root 12288 2008-08-21 11:52 lost+found # uname -a Linux ppc03.englab.brq.redhat.com 2.6.26-0.115.rc9.git2.fc10.ppc64 #1 SMP Mon Jul 7 22:29:44 EDT 2008 ppc64 ppc64 ppc64 GNU/Linux Karel -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
