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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