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

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Date:	Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:51:34 +0200
From:	Simen Thoresen <simentt@...phinics.no>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: File as generic block-device?

martin f krafft wrote:
> 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

Thank you - I missed googling for the absolutely obvious.

Sigh.

-S



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