[lxc-devel] [RFC PATCH 00/11] Add support for devtmpfs in user namespaces

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Fri, 2014-05-16 at 22:17 +0200, Christian Seiler wrote:
> Hi,

> (removed every CC but yourself and lxc-devel, don't need to spam LKML
> for this)

> > Woa!  Time out...  Sorry, this will be an off topic aside.
> > 
> > Loop devices support partitions?  I'd love to know how that works.

> Use util-linux >= 2.21 with Kernel >= 3.1:

> losetup -P -f filename
> Creates: /dev/loopXpY
> Remove with: losetup -d /dev/loopX
>   (Also removes partition devices automatically.)

> Also, using device mapper is an option (supported by all Linux
> distributions that aren't completely ancient):

> losetup -f filename
> kpartx -a /dev/loopXpY
> Creates: /dev/mapper/loopXpY
> Remove with: kpartx -d /dev/loopX && losetup -d /dev/loopX
>   (Note that not doing kpartx -d /dev/loopX is problematic.)

NICE!  New toys to play with...

Many Thanks!

> Regards,
> Christian

Regards,
Mike
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