How to generate a large file allocating space

[Ric Wheeler]

  On 11/02/2010 04:01 AM, Alex Bligh wrote:
> On 2 Nov 2010, at 03:21, Andreas Dilger<adilger.kernel at dilger.ca>  wrote:
>
>> Actually, I think Ceph has a network block-device feature (recently submitted/committed to mainline), and Lustre has a prototype block-device feature as well.
> Unfortunately I need something not prototype. Fortunately I don't need many of lustre's or ceph's features.
>

Sounds like you will end up writing something brand new - much less stable than 
any of the options mentioned in the thread previously.

Ric