Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 23:14:01 +0200 From: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de> Subject: Re: CFT: vdfuse port (was: Re: Mounting VirtualBox vdi files [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]) Message-ID: <20100913211401.GA49701@triton8.kn-bremen.de> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1009111302590.62686@wonkity.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1007052053090.9243@wonkity.com> <20100706032057.GA15827@stlux503.dsto.defence.gov.au> <201009022024.o82KOVni007042@triton8.kn-bremen.de> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1009081918340.25377@wonkity.com> <20100911184519.GA2100@triton8.kn-bremen.de> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1009111302590.62686@wonkity.com>
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On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 01:06:24PM -0600, Warren Block wrote: > On Sat, 11 Sep 2010, Juergen Lock wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 07:44:37PM -0600, Warren Block wrote: > >> On Thu, 2 Sep 2010, Juergen Lock wrote: > >> > >>> ...there is a much simpler fusefs tool in debian called vdfuse that I > >>> now finally made a port of. I don't know how stable this is on > >>> FreeBSD or if there still may be bugs, so please give this a good test > >>> and post your results here. Here's a simple example: > >>> > >>> # vdfuse -r -f ~nox/.VirtualBox/HardDisks/win7-64.vdi /mnt > >>> # mdconfig -a -f /mnt/Partition2 -o readonly > >>> md0 > >>> # mount -o ro -t ntfs /dev/md0 /mnt2 > >>> # ls -l /mnt2 > >>> ... > >>> # umount /mnt2 > >>> # mdconfig -d -u 0 > >>> # umount /mnt > >> > >> It works for a .vdi of a UFS drive. The BSD partitions show up on the > >> md0 device (md0a, etc). Just a trivial test, but looks promising! > > > > Yep, those kind of tests worked for me too, I just wasn't sure if it > > also survives `heavy use', i.e. reading/writing/using files much on > > the mounted fs.es... > > Dumping the partitions of that FreeBSD system worked just now. Not what > I'd call a thorough test, but it did read everything in the filesystem > without problems. Ok that sounds promising... Someone want to do more tests or should I just commit the port? :) Thanx, Juergen
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