Re: Patch(2.5.45): move io_restrictions to blkdev.h

[Joe Thornber]

On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 12:48:30AM -0800, Adam J. Richter wrote:
> 	Great.  The only thing I was going to do that might depend
> on this patch is try to port /dev/loop to device mapper, and I may
> be able to eliminate the affected code anyhow.

This makes me uneasy, do you mean you want to:

i) make a 'loop' target, if so why ?

ii) or that you want to rewrite loop so that it sits on top of dm -
    ie. you create a set of linear mappings that correspond to the
    file ?   This would only be sensible if there is significant
    simplification/reduction of the loop code, and probably would
    never work because of tail packing.

I'm not keen on either of these ideas.

- Joe