On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 8:48 AM, dacresni <[email protected]> wrote:
> simple,

For various definitions of simple.

I was just wondering if tools exist that abstract out a lot of the
details.  For example, I should not have work at the level of "...
[multiplying] the start sector by the number of bytes per sector".  I
should be thinking about disks and partitions, or on an even more
abstract level, about "containers", specifically, hierarchical
containers.  Disks contain partitions that contain filesystems that
contain folders that contain files that contain data that contain
bytes that contain bits.  Putting a partition on a disk should be as
straightforward as putting a file in a folder.  By extension, there
should be a mkdisk and mkpartition just like there is a mkfs, mkdir,
or mkfile.

Regards,
- Robert

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