Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:29:34 +1000 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: albods |
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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).
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.
Regards,
Richard....
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