On 10/25/07, Nicholas Leippe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You could configure a loopback device on the file with an offset, then > access > the loopback device's block device as a file. If you need to append to the > file, then you will need to pad it first and know at what offset to begin > writing--or just append to the original file, but it won't be accessible > to > the lo device (and you shouldn't write to the portion of the original file > mapped by the lo device).
Hmm...pretty creative solution that sounds promising. I'm going to play with this and maybe the Fuse idea a little bit to see if I can't improve performance a bit. Thanks all for the suggestions. Jon -- What's this? Another BLOG? http://www.jtoo.net/ /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
