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From: Simen Thoresen <simentt@dolphinics.no>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: File as generic block-device?
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:56:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48FF2304.8070301@dolphinics.no> (raw)

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

             reply	other threads:[~2008-10-22 13:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-22 12:56 Simen Thoresen [this message]
2008-10-22 13:30 ` File as generic block-device? Geert Uytterhoeven
2008-10-22 13:36   ` Simen Thoresen
2008-10-22 13:33 ` martin f krafft
2008-10-22 13:51   ` Simen Thoresen

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