Memory disk a la mfsroot?

2010-02-11 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Hi, I would like to know if there is a mount command that allows to create a memory disk that can be initialized from a file. What I am looking for is something like mount_mfs -F, but that does not modify the actual file. I know what I could easily to this by copying the content of the file

Re: Memory disk a la mfsroot?

2010-02-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/02/2010 14:53, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: I would like to know if there is a mount command that allows to create a memory disk that can be initialized from a file. What I am looking for is something like mount_mfs -F, but that does not modify

Re: Memory disk a la mfsroot?

2010-02-11 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/02/2010 14:53, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: I would like to know if there is a mount command that allows to create a memory disk that can be initialized from a file. What I am looking for is something like mount_mfs -F,

Re: Memory disk a la mfsroot?

2010-02-11 Thread RW
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:12:22 + Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/02/2010 14:53, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: I would like to know if there is a mount command that allows to create a memory disk that can be

Re: Memory disk a la mfsroot?

2010-02-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/02/2010 15:39, RW wrote: On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:12:22 + Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: On 11/02/2010 14:53, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: I would like to know if there is a mount command that allows to create a

Re: Memory disk a la mfsroot?

2010-02-11 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/02/2010 15:39, RW wrote: On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:12:22 + Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: On 11/02/2010 14:53, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: I would like to know if there is a

Re: Memory disk a la mfsroot?

2010-02-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/02/2010 17:10, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: Actually, I was thinking more along the lines of mounting a .iso as a cd9660 filesystem. Which won't muck up the underlying .iso, but only because it's read-only. You could mount a FFS image read-only

Re: Memory disk a la mfsroot?

2010-02-11 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/02/2010 17:10, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: Actually, I was thinking more along the lines of mounting a .iso as a cd9660 filesystem. Which won't muck up the underlying .iso, but only because it's read-only. You could