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From: "Matthew Allen" <fret@memecode.com>
Subject: Re: Virtual volumes...
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 15:44:38 +1000
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---------- Original Message ----------
To: Matthew Allen (fret@memecode.com)
From: Yury Umanets (umka@namesys.com)
Subject: Re: Virtual volumes...
Date: 21/8/2003 7:43:35p

>> 1) Is it possible to redirect ReiserFS to use a file instead of a 
>> physical disk? (As far as I'm aware LVM doesn't do that...)
>
>Probably you mean loop back device?

Yes, this is what I mean. Btw, are loop back devices read only?

However that sort of arrangment is limited to unix right?

I'm also looking for a cross platform solution (ie Windows).
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Matthew Allen
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