Re: [PATCH] block: add GENHD_FL_UNPARTITIONABLE

[Tejun Heo]

Hello,

On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 8:54 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 05:32:37PM +0200, Tejun Heo wrote:
>> There are cases where suppressing partition scan is useful - e.g. for
>> lo devices
>
> Err, partitioning loop devices is extremly useful.

Oh yeah it is. It's to allow toggling it dynamically via losetup
(currently, it's decided by module param). It's part of making lo more
dynamic.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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