linux-kernel - Re: File as generic block-device?

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Message-ID: <20081022133313.GA26243@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net>
Date:	Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:33:13 +0200
From:	martin f krafft <madduck@...duck.net>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: File as generic block-device?

also sprach Simen Thoresen <simentt@...phinics.no> [2008.10.22.1456 +0200]:
> 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.

I suggest you search the web first.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loopback_disk_device

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