Slightly OT - Virtual Filesystems under Windows?

[Gene Collins]

Hi, why don't you create a RAM disk? Then copy your files onto the RAM
disk.
Gene

>Hi,
>I know this is off-topic, but I know this can be done under Linux using the
>Loopback device, so I'm wondering if a hopefully free and easy equivalent
>exists under Win32 systems.  I don't need encryption so products like
>Bestcrypt and Scramdisk seem like overkill to me.  Here's my problem.
>I have 3.6 gigabytes of MP3 files in many subdirectories under one main
>directory, which I wish to burn to DVD.  Unfortunately, many of the
>filenames and/or pathnames are too long for the UDF or Joliet filesystems
>used on CD's and DVD's.
>My solution.
>If I could make a Fat32 filesystem in a file on my Windows machine and mount
>it as a virtual drive, I could then copy the MP3s over to this virtual
>filesystem.  Then I could burn that and the tool to mount it onto a DVD.  If
>forced to use encryption software I'd put in a really dumb, easily guessable
>password and include a text file on the DVD which contains the password, in
>case I ever forgot it.  Security isn't an issue here, so once again products
>like Bestcrypt seem like overkill.  Does anybody know of an equivalent of
>/dev/loop for Windows?  What I'm wanting to do is to make, say, a FAT32
>filesystem in c:\myfat32.dsk, let's say.  Then use some tool to mount that
>as, say, drive X:.
>Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>Thanks,
>Jayson.
>
>
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