Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 08:12:51 +0100 (MET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, j_mini@efn.org, blkirk@float.eli.net, bartol@salk.edu, benedict@echonyc.com, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, abial@nask.pl, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: One-floppy FreBSD + rich networking Message-ID: <199801220712.IAA00131@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <199801220746.AAA09848@usr09.primenet.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Jan 22, 98 07:45:50 am
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> > > The MSDOSFS arguments are fixable; specifically, you can have an FS > > > stacking layer on an MSDOS FS that implements storage for UNIX > > > semantics using a file which it does not export to consumers. A > > > UMSDOSFS, but without the kludges. > > > > that's vnconfig, right ? > > Huh?!? > > No, vnconfig is a program for making a vnode appear as a device. It's > major value is for: but I have always done things like this: dd if=/dev/zero of=/msdos_drive_c/swapfile bs=8k count=2048 vnconfig -e swap /dev/vn0 of=/msdos_drive_c/swapfile swapon /dev/vn0b or dd if=/dev/zero of=/msdos_drive_c/ufs_on_msdosfs bs=8k count=2048 vnconfig /dev/vn0 of=/msdos_drive_c/ufs_on_msdosfs newfs ... /dev/vn0c since 2.1 times. What else would you want (I mean, for that specific application) ? cheers luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________
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