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@iitg.ernet.in> 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 > -- -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
