From e03c8dd14915fabc101aa495828d58598dc5af98 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kay Sievers Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 20:12:04 +0200 Subject: 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 Cc: Davidlohr Bueso Acked-By: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- include/linux/loop.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/linux/loop.h') diff --git a/include/linux/loop.h b/include/linux/loop.h index 66c194e2d9b..4367fc507fe 100644 --- a/include/linux/loop.h +++ b/include/linux/loop.h @@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ enum { LO_FLAGS_READ_ONLY = 1, LO_FLAGS_USE_AOPS = 2, LO_FLAGS_AUTOCLEAR = 4, + LO_FLAGS_PARTSCAN = 8, }; #include /* for __kernel_old_dev_t */ -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2