[plug] ext2 filesystem on a file?

Cameron Patrick cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au
Sat May 17 10:32:59 WST 2003


On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 02:01:42AM +0800, Bernard Blackham wrote:

| Must try this sometime, just for fun ... (would involve a kernel
| recompile for me :( )

Methinks that raid0 would be a lot slower than LVM or linear "raid"
mode if both files are on the same hard drive.

Oh, and you don't need the losetup bit for mke2fs'ing a file:
	mke2fs /path/to/random/file
works fine.

Cameron.



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