this is a response to your “lomount – easy mounting of partitioned loop images” article i found on your blog a few minutes ago. Nice solution but i also want to show you another and more convenient way to setup and mount partioned block images (crypto files, xen vm images etc.) .. anyway ..

first of all you should know that i’m working on sles10 mostly (suse linux enterprise) but the tools i use are available on centos/debian/fedora and other known distributions too. It’s the meaning of the multipath i/o tools that are needed for distributed and multipathed disk access across network connections. Within this suite a bunch of cli tools are included you can use them to administer multipath connections but also partitions, block images or LUN’s

just have a look on one of our old wikis where i described how to use them (public access):

http://wiki.lemens.de/index.php/Xen_Image_mittels_Loop_Device_mounten

btw we’re searching for wo-/men to join our multilingual wiki under http://wiki.unseregedanken.de (currently internal) to increase the quality of articles and extend the variety of categories. Once we have reached a certain amount of qualified articles we are planning to make the wiki public again.

maybe you want to add some of my experience to your article?

however it would be nice to hear from you

best regards
jan