Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 06 Mar 1996 21:13:07 -0600 (CST) | From | Aaron Ucko <> | Subject | Re: ext2 in a dos file/partition |
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>> 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.
cpmfs?! Now I've heard everything! What's next, punch card reader support? :-)
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