1. A method comprising: receiving an application command, the application command comprising an identification of a source and a location of source data at the source; receiving a list indicative of sectors for storing data; receiving a file create command to create a new file having a defined size; creating the new file having the defined size; providing a file system command to initiate a write process of the source data into the new file; and writing the source data to sectors identified in the list, directly from the source to the new file, without a file system operating as an intermediary to the writing of the source data to the new file.