RFI:Emulating large filesystems.

From: "santhosh" <santhoshkumarpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: 17 Sep 2006 00:42:41 -0700

Hi,

I want to write a emulator which can emulate a disk. Basically i want
to create large filesystems(~32TB) and large files(~2TB) but i do no
have such huge amount of space.
I want to know what it takes to develop such a emulator.
Can somebody please direct me in this regard.

.

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