From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 22 00:57:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA26374 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 00:57:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA26369 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 00:56:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id IAA00131; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 08:12:51 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199801220712.IAA00131@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: One-floppy FreBSD + rich networking To: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert) Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 08:12:51 +0100 (MET) 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 In-Reply-To: <199801220746.AAA09848@usr09.primenet.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Jan 22, 98 07:45:50 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > > 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/ _____________________________|______________________________________