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Date:      Thu, 3 Apr 2003 15:53:37 +0930
From:      "W. Sierke" <ws@senet.com.au>
To:        "Rus Foster" <rghf@fsck.me.uk>, <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Loopback filesystem support?
Message-ID:  <057001c2f9a9$8fa771e0$0264a8c0@regional.net.au>
References:  <20030403064854.C3898@thor.65535.net>

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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*

e.g.:

# vnconfig -c vn0 file.iso && mount_cd9660 /dev/vn0 /mnt
...
# umount /mnt && vnconfig -u vn0


Wayne



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