File as generic block-device?

[Simen Thoresen]

Hi all,

I have a project where I require to treat a file as a block-device 
(specifically, I want a file on an ext3 fs to act as one of the 
raid-members in a md-based stripe-set. I know that I can make a 
/filesystem/ on a file because both mkfs and mount (with -o loop) will 
accept a file as a block-device, but I have found no such function for 
mdadm, and am thus asking for a kernel-internal way to re-plug a file 
into the block-device layer.

Is this possible?

My current platform i CentOS5, a RHEL5 rebuild (modified 2.6.18-kernel).

-S
--
Simen Thoresen - Dolphin ICS Systems Administrator
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/