How to mount ext4 image file as volume in pod?

If I create an 50MB image file in linux, as below:

fallocate -l 50M mytest.img
mke2fs -t ext4 mytest.img

Is there a way to mount that image as a volume in k8s? I can mount it on the host and then use hostPath, but I don’t want to be reliant on a host mounting for each pod, especially in a HA cluster.

Want to say that it requires the pod having some form of privilege escalation to permit mounting.