Mounting partitions of a loopback device

[Pádraig Brady]

Sean Bruno wrote:
> I found today, that I was unable to mount or detect partitions in a loop
> back device that I had configured via losetup.  
> 
> Was there any discussion on the LKML about this patch or is there anyone
> "championing" it into the kernel?
> http://lwn.net/Articles/274113/

See also http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/lomount.sh

Pádraig.