Subject: Re: loopback filesystem
To: None <joe@mediaone.net>
From: Gary Duzan <gary@wheel.tiac.net>
List: current-users
Date: 03/27/1999 21:45:56
Check out vnconfig(8). That might do what you want.
Gary D. Duzan
In Message <199903280241.VAA03905@js.ne.mediaone.net> ,
Joseph Sarkes <joe@js.ne.mediaone.net> wrote:
=>I have in the past used a loopback filesystem feature
=>of linux to verify a cdrom image prior to burning it
=>onto a blank. Also, it is useable for making floppy
=>disk images.
=>
=>Is there a method of mounting a file in loopback mode
=>as a filesystem in NetBSD? I don't see it in the man
=>pages, or mentioned in any options. Just entire file
=>system partitions are mentioned.
=>
=>If I am just missing something, where is it documented.
=>Assuming that it is not existant, is there a particular
=>reason that it is not included in NetBSD?
=>
=>--
=>Joseph Sarkes mailto:joe@mediaone.net