Re: File as generic block-device?

From: martin f krafft
Date: Wed Oct 22 2008 - 09:43:43 EST


also sprach Simen Thoresen <simentt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2008.10.22.1456 +0200]:
> 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.

I suggest you search the web first.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loopback_disk_device

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