[Gllug] Raw Partitions

[Christian Smith]

On Wed, 16 Nov 2005, Martin A. Brooks wrote:

>Christian Smith wrote:
>> man losetup
>
>I thought about that, but, if I recall correctly, loop devices don't
>have ioctls, which means you can use them in the block-like way a raw
>file system would need.
>
>Been a while since I tried though, maybe my recollection faulty.


Any files mounted as filesystems (like initrd creation) have an implicit
loopback device created. The loopback device is a complete block device.

What ioctls would be needed?

Christian


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