Re: File as generic block-device?

[Simen Thoresen]

martin f krafft wrote:
> 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

Thank you - I missed googling for the absolutely obvious.

Sigh.

-S



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