Re: hints for a "virtual disk" implementation
Re: hints for a "virtual disk" implementation
- Subject: Re: hints for a "virtual disk" implementation
- From: "Valentin Slavov" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:28:17 +0200
Yeah, I thought about that but you can't put a 16TB file in a sparse
image (the image grows, even if the file contains only zeroes). Sparse
files would be great but unfortunately HFS+ doesn't support them.
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Quinn <email@hidden> wrote:
> At 15:47 +0200 21/2/08, Valentin Slavov wrote:
> >I need to develop a virtual block device which will be used for
> >testing filesystem operations with files larger than 16TB or so.
>
> Is there a reason why you can't use a sparse disk image to do this?
>
> S+E
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