Re: Disk simulator

[Anandanam Rama Kotaiah <kotaiah@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

hi
no the requirements for my storage structure r much beyond. a 4gb file is
no way sufficient. i m targetting at a metadata itself of size 5 GB or so
bye

On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Momchil Velikov wrote:

> >>>>> "Anandanam" == Anandanam Rama Kotaiah <kotaiah@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> [Please, wrap long lines to like 70 characters. Thanks.]
>
> Anandanam> hi everybody I need some information about storage
> Anandanam>  simulator. I've got to simulate a file system environment
> Anandanam>  so that i can define my own inode structure, file
> Anandanam>  structure and store the files on disk.The only way for
> Anandanam>  this i found out is to change the ext2/3.. Besides this
> Anandanam>  are there any storage simulators where i can define the
> Anandanam>  filesystem structures..  thnx for any help in advance
>
> How about using a plain file ?
>
> Or, if you mean from inside a kernel, how about using the loopback
> device ?
>
> ~velco
>

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