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Date:      Wed, 16 Jun 1999 14:09:47 +1000
From:      Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au>
To:        Randall Hopper <aa8vb@ipass.net>
Cc:        Ted Spradley <tsprad@set.spradley.tmi.net>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: vnconfig & FAT filesystem -- supported? 
Message-ID:  <199906160409.OAA12424@lightning.itga.com.au>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 15 Jun 1999 23:35:06 -0400.

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[Aside: the "vn" driver is not the same thing as the "vnode system" - the vn 
driver allows you to use a file (represented by a vnode in the kernel) as a 
block device.  Vnodes are how the kernel represents files in a somewhat 
file-system-independent manner.]

> Question is, can the vnode system handle MSDOS/FAT?

Well, it certainly orta, as vn really knows only about blocks, not filesystems.
And the "make release" process requires the use of the vn driver to build boot 
floppies.  And it works for me:

hellcat## vnconfig /dev/vn0a floppyimg 
hellcat## mount -t msdos /dev/vn0a /mnt
hellcat## ls /mnt
DATA.1*         SETUP.EXE*      _INST16.EX_*    _SETUP.LIB*
SETUP.BMP*      SETUP.INS*      _ISDEL.EXE*     disk1.id*
SETUP.DBG*      SETUP.PKG*      _SETUP.DLL*
hellcat## umount /mnt
hellcat## vnconfig -d /dev/vn0a
hellcat## 

Check: do you have the vn device configured in your kernel?






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