> Hi, all. I see this discussion is still going on. Here's an
> interesting idea for you (not mine, some other guy suggested it in
> private email, but he doesn't seem to have taken up my suggestion of
> posting it to linux-kernel).
>
> His idea is to used a modified loop driver, and build a filesystem in
> a regular file, then mount this FS if you want to access different
> data "streams".
>
> When creating the file, make it huge, but filled with holes. The
> modified loop block driver would fill in holes as required (assuming
> it doesn't do this already: I haven't looked).
loop does NOT work with holes, look at my prev. postings. It might be
non-trivial to fix.
> If you want to see the albod as atomic, just look at the file. Move
> it, ftp it, whatever. No kernel/libc hacks required. If you want to
> see the data "streams", mount the file. No new semantics required.
Hmm, and you ftp 100Meg file full of zeros :-).
Pavel
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