> You can already use Device-Mapper to create "partitions" on
> your loop devices,
You're right but I want _partitions_ but not "partitions" ;)
It should appears like a real hardware disk, not virtual one.
> so there's not much of a reason to add partitioning support
> to the loop
> driver itself.
There is a reason for teaching my students indeed :) that is why I ask.
> There are a variety of tools you can use to
> set them up: EVMS,
> LVM2, dmsetup, and I think there is/was a simple partitioning
> tool that uses
> DM (dmpartx?).
It's just completely different topic for the teaching ;)
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