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Date:      Thu, 3 Apr 2003 08:57:07 -0500
From:      Jeff Walters <jeff@walters.name>
To:        "W. Sierke" <ws@senet.com.au>, "Rus Foster" <rghf@fsck.me.uk>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Loopback filesystem support?
Message-ID:  <200304030857.07275.jeff@walters.name>
In-Reply-To: <057001c2f9a9$8fa771e0$0264a8c0@regional.net.au>
References:  <20030403064854.C3898@thor.65535.net> <057001c2f9a9$8fa771e0$0264a8c0@regional.net.au>

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On Thursday 03 April 2003 01:23 am, W. Sierke wrote:
> From: "Rus Foster" <rghf@fsck.me.uk>
>
> > Hi All,
> >  Does FreeBSD have any support for loopback filesystems. i.e. I mean
> > being able to mount a file as a filesystem ala Linux. Googling didn't
> > chuck back much and the nearest I found was mount_null. Is it possible?
>
> man vn
> man vnconfig
> /dev/vn*
>

See also:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks-virtual.html

vnconfig goes away in favor of mdconfig in FreeBSD 5.0.

Jeff



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