lkml.org 
[lkml]   [1996]   [Mar]   [6]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
From
SubjectRe: ext2 in a dos file/partition
Date
> When I worked on vax/vms years ago, we had a similar thing, it was called a 
> "virtual disk"; the file in which it lived was called a "container file".
> (It's very similar to the CVS of drvspace and stacker). You could mount the
> virtual disk, format it, etc. just as if it was a real disk.

See the loopfs in the current kernel. I don't know if it works over the top
of MSDOS, but I've been using it for various things - like trying to debug
a cpmfs for Linux.

Alan



\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-03-22 13:36    [W:0.028 / U:0.316 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site