Re: Disk simulator driver

Matt Domsch
2006-10-29T23:02:40Z

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?

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