From: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
To: Sean Bruno <sean.bruno@dsl-only.net>
Cc: SCSI development list <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Disk simulator driver
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 17:02:43 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061029230243.GB13218@lists.us.dell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1162153159.6802.21.camel@home-desk>
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 12:19:19PM -0800, Sean Bruno wrote:
> Is there a project/driver that would take a disk/file/lvm partition as
> an argument(/dev/sda, /tmp/my_big_file.bin /dev/Mapper/MYLVMPART eg.)
> and then create a new /dev entry that could be read/written to as though
> it were a disk?
>
> I think I want to look at sg, but I wasn't sure if that is what I want.
>
> Just poking around for fun and education.
>
> Sean
You want something different than losetup and /dev/loop ?
e.g. something you can issue disk-like ioctls to?
--
Matt Domsch
Software Architect
Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux
Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-29 23:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-29 20:19 Disk simulator driver Sean Bruno
2006-10-29 23:02 ` Matt Domsch [this message]
2006-10-30 0:08 ` Sean Bruno
2006-10-30 12:42 ` Aboo Valappil
2006-10-30 14:59 ` Sean Bruno
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