Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 20:45:19 +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: <20100911184519.GA2100@triton8.kn-bremen.de> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1009081918340.25377@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>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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... Thanx, :) Juergen
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20100911184519.GA2100>