From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 9 12:11:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from milquetoast.cs.mcgill.ca (milquetoast.CS.McGill.CA [132.206.2.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFAFA37BBF3 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 12:11:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrewb@milquetoast.cs.mcgill.ca) Received: (from andrewb@localhost) by milquetoast.cs.mcgill.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA19612 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 15:11:54 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 15:11:54 -0400 From: Andrew BOGECHO To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Loopback device (a la Linux /dev/loop0) on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20000809151154.I13884@cs.mcgill.ca> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.94.15i In-Reply-To: ; from Dennis Favro on Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 03:03:50PM -0400 Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, CANADA Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 9 15:11:16 EDT 2000 Hi, I found this helpful. http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/disks-virtual.html Andrew. On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 03:03:50PM -0400, Dennis Favro wrote: > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message