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Re: [Xen-devel] AFS-based VBD backend

On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 10:56:52AM +0000, Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote:
> I was unaware that the 'file' backend used loop devices. The
> documentation doesn't state that.

I had to know, so I went digging for it -- see the 'losetup' commands in
/etc/xen/scripts/block-file -- this setup script is called by the
block() function in /lib/python/xen/xend/Blkctl.py, which is in turn
called by attach() in xend/server/blkif.py, etc. 

Steve
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UNIX/Linux Infrastructure Architect, TerraLuna LLC
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