From: Brad Campbell <brad@wasp.net.au>
To: David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>
Cc: Linux RAID Mailing List <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Using a disk image file as a device in a raid set (like a loopback device)
Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 14:33:31 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43C0EA7B.6020406@wasp.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43C0E89D.3040209@dgreaves.com>
David Greaves wrote:
>
> mdadm -B /dev/md0 -l linear -n2 /dev/sdc2 /space/sdb2.dd_image
>
> but of course mdadm correctly complains that /space/sdb2.dd_image isn't
> a block device.
>
> Does anyone know how I can do this?
use the loopback device
man losetup
Good luck :)
Brad
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-08 10:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-08 10:25 Using a disk image file as a device in a raid set (like a loopback device) David Greaves
2006-01-08 10:33 ` Brad Campbell [this message]
2006-01-08 10:40 ` David Greaves
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