RE: Creating a mountable pseudo device
RE: Creating a mountable pseudo device
- Subject: RE: Creating a mountable pseudo device
- From: "Brad Post \(MACBU\)" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 10:19:28 -0700
- Thread-topic: Creating a mountable pseudo device
Why not just use Apple's Disk Image Plugin API? You can have the data
in any format as long as you are passing back the correct information?
-----Original Message-----
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mailto:email@hidden] On Behalf Of Tim Hewett
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 4:03 AM
To: email@hidden
Subject: Creating a mountable pseudo device
Hello,
I am trying to find out how to create a device which can be mounted and
ejected in the same kind of way as a disk image. I.e. a disk image isn't
a real physical device as such, but it can be mounted and presumably
there is a process which acts as a translator between the contents of
the disk image and the kernel's wish to reference it as a filesystem.
I would like to do something very similar but cannot find any
documentation describing an API or any examples demonstrating this. Any
suggestions on where to find this info would be much appreciated.
Also would it be necessary to write this, or part of it, in kernel
space, or is it possible to do it entirely in user space?
Regards,
Tim.
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