From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 9 12: 3:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cr743503-a.etob1.on.wave.home.com (cr743503-a.etob1.on.wave.home.com [24.114.23.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAF1E37BA5E for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 12:03:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dennis.favro@utoronto.ca) Received: from localhost (dennis@localhost) by cr743503-a.etob1.on.wave.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA51094 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 15:03:50 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dennis.favro@utoronto.ca) X-Authentication-Warning: cr743503-a.etob1.on.wave.home.com: dennis owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 15:03:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Dennis Favro X-Sender: dennis@cr743503-a.etob1.on.wave.home.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Loopback device (a la Linux /dev/loop0) on FreeBSD Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Does FreeBSD have a loopback device for mounting filesystems that's somehting like Linux's /dev/loop0? We share a large number of CD-ROMs (parts catalogues, reference information and such) and its easeir to take images of them and store them on disk than to go out and buy enough CD-ROM drives to mount them all. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message