From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 3 05:57:10 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C66237B401 for ; Thu, 3 Apr 2003 05:57:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from c001.snv.cp.net (h020.c001.snv.cp.net [209.228.32.134]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 52D9143F3F for ; Thu, 3 Apr 2003 05:57:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jeff@walters.name) Received: (cpmta 9991 invoked from network); 3 Apr 2003 05:57:08 -0800 Received: from 24.216.194.242 (HELO 10.0.1.51) by smtp.register-admin.com (209.228.32.134) with SMTP; 3 Apr 2003 05:57:08 -0800 X-Sent: 3 Apr 2003 13:57:08 GMT From: Jeff Walters To: "W. Sierke" , "Rus Foster" Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 08:57:07 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <20030403064854.C3898@thor.65535.net> <057001c2f9a9$8fa771e0$0264a8c0@regional.net.au> In-Reply-To: <057001c2f9a9$8fa771e0$0264a8c0@regional.net.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200304030857.07275.jeff@walters.name> cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Loopback filesystem support? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: jeff@walters.name List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 13:57:10 -0000 On Thursday 03 April 2003 01:23 am, W. Sierke wrote: > From: "Rus Foster" > > > 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