linux/include
Kay Sievers e03c8dd149 loop: always allow userspace partitions and optionally support automatic scanning
Automatic partition scanning can be requested individually per loop
device during its setup by setting LO_FLAGS_PARTSCAN. By default, no
partition tables are scanned.

Userspace can now always add and remove partitions from all loop
devices, regardless if the in-kernel partition scanner is enabled or
not.

The needed partition minor numbers are allocated from the extended
minors space, the main loop device numbers will continue to match the
loop minors, regardless of the number of partitions used.

  # grep . /sys/class/block/loop1/loop/*
  /sys/block/loop1/loop/autoclear:0
  /sys/block/loop1/loop/backing_file:/home/kay/data/stuff/part.img
  /sys/block/loop1/loop/offset:0
  /sys/block/loop1/loop/partscan:1
  /sys/block/loop1/loop/sizelimit:0

  # ls -l /dev/loop*
  brw-rw---- 1 root disk   7,   0 Aug 14 20:22 /dev/loop0
  brw-rw---- 1 root disk   7,   1 Aug 14 20:23 /dev/loop1
  brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259,   0 Aug 14 20:23 /dev/loop1p1
  brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259,   1 Aug 14 20:23 /dev/loop1p2
  brw-rw---- 1 root disk   7,  99 Aug 14 20:23 /dev/loop99
  brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259,   2 Aug 14 20:23 /dev/loop99p1
  brw-rw---- 1 root disk 259,   3 Aug 14 20:23 /dev/loop99p2
  crw------T 1 root root  10, 237 Aug 14 20:22 /dev/loop-control

Cc: Karel Zak  <kzak@redhat.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@gnu.org>
Acked-By: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-08-23 20:12:04 +02:00
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acpi Merge branch 'apei-release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6 2011-08-03 21:53:27 -10:00
asm-generic Merge branch 'next/cross-platform' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/linux-arm-soc 2011-07-26 17:12:10 -07:00
crypto net: remove mm.h inclusion from netdevice.h 2011-06-21 19:17:20 -07:00
drm drm: Separate EDID Header Check from EDID Block Check 2011-08-04 14:39:35 +01:00
keys encrypted-keys: add key format support 2011-06-27 09:10:45 -04:00
linux loop: always allow userspace partitions and optionally support automatic scanning 2011-08-23 20:12:04 +02:00
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media [media] V4L: initial driver for ov5642 CMOS sensor 2011-07-27 17:56:09 -03:00
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xen xen/balloon: memory hotplug support for Xen balloon driver 2011-07-25 20:57:08 -07:00
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