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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