On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> I'm embarking on some ufs growing code, and need a test bed other
> than my harddisk :) Is there a way of allocating a memory
> filesystem, (or file system on a disk file), that's got empty space
> at the end?
>
> I know that I can use mount_mfs to construct a memory fs, but IIRC
> if can't allocate more memory on the end that isn't part of the
> file system.
>
> Has anyone any tips? (I'm sure there's a way of doing it with the
> vn driver, Matt?)
>
I would expect that you could use vn to create a device out of a file,
newfs that, and play all you want.
Kelly
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