redirect hdd reads?

[hazarada]

Whats the best way of redirecting hdd reads to another location? Can i do it at file system level or would i have to get lower?

[bartoli]

That depends if by "another location" you mean another directory or another physical address. Could you give us some more context? You will probably need to put your code in your OS kernel, i don't think youll be able to do that with a user program

[helios]

Can you give more details? What are you trying to do?

[zb0S216C]

Your OS's API might have something geared towards HDD manipulation. Your OS writes to the HDD somehow.

_Wazzak

[hazarada]

well what im looking for is something that works like symlink(a file pointer if you like) but the read needs to be hijacked before hdd's(well a tape in this case) involvement and redirected to another drive

dealing with some ancient software here and need to change its functionality a bit

[helios]

Well, symbolic links can point to files in different file systems.

[hazarada]

yes but first the OS still has to get to the symlink on the drive to be redirected which in this case can take minutes