On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 06:59:58PM +0100, Lucio Crusca wrote: > During a disaster recovery I found that losetup either > > 1. does not support creating loop devices that target physical devices. In > this case I think there exists a compelling reason to support them > (http://serverfault.com/questions/659484) and this bug report is a wishlist > bug > > or > > 2. it does support physical devices, but it is an undocumented feature (at > least in the manpage) and the warning it issues is misleading beacuse it > makes you think it doesn't support them ("losetup: /dev/sdc2: warning: file > smaller than 512 bytes, the loop device maybe be useless or invisible for > system tools"). In this case this could be a documentation bug. commit b048b8af3a5568c90f6e0c2d56f6cb399dedb0d1 Author: Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon May 13 11:00:47 2013 +0200 losetup: use warn_size() for regular files only Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> Karel -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> http://karelzak.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
