Hello,<br>
<br>
Do you think dm could have a loop target instead of seting loops with losetup ?<br>
We allready have dm-crypt for the encryption stage of a "losetup -e
<crypt>", dm replaces losetup when source is a device but I
understand that we still need losetup if the source is a regular file.<br>
Our problem is that we will need to map a great number of files, as if
they were PVs of a VG. Linux kernel can have up to 255 loops but we
will reach this limit.<br>
<br>
The idea is to embed to loop itself in a device mapper add-on like dm-crypt, so we won't use any /dev/loop* .<br>
<br>
Do you think this is stupid or is there some possility out there ?<br>
(we would like to have some advice before starting any project in this direction)<br>
<br>
Thank you,<br>
David G.M.<br>
<br>
PS:<br>
Anniversary of this post, one year ago !<br>
<a href="http://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2005-October/msg00031.html">http://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2005-October/msg00031.html</a><br>