Re: Loopback filesystem support?

2003-04-03 Thread Jeff Walters
On Thursday 03 April 2003 01:23 am, W. Sierke wrote: From: Rus Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: Loopback filesystem support?

2003-04-03 Thread Adam
On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 00:52, Rus Foster wrote: 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 mount_null

Re: Loopback filesystem support?

2003-04-03 Thread Adam
On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 08:57, Jeff Walters wrote: 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. Ah, I guess there is another solution other than mount_null .. My mistake .. -- Adam [EMAIL

Loopback filesystem support?

2003-04-02 Thread 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? Rgds Rus -- www: http://www.65535.net | More bits for your byte

Re: Loopback filesystem support?

2003-04-02 Thread W. Sierke
From: Rus Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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.: #