On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 03:14:05PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > > I am attaching a patch that enables passing a new parameter, "sizelimit", > to losetup. Passing a size limit allows loop directing only part of a file. We need to support the option in mount(8) too. > + " -S | --sizelimit <num> loop limited to only <num> bytes of the file\n" > " -s | --show print device name (with -f <file>)\n" Well, try http://www.google.com/search?q=losetup+sizelimit Loop-AES uses: -S <pseed> -s <sizelimit> and unfortunately some distributions use Loop-AES patch. The latest version of Loop-AES disables the option '--show' and uses "-s <sizelimit>" only. My suggestion is to use the long options only: * mark '-s' in util-linux-ng as deprecated and suggest to use the long option '--show' only. * use (only) the long option '--sizelimit' for the loop sizelimit. It means without '-S'. I think for Loop-AES guys shouldn't be problem to support these long options too. Karel -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
