On Feb 2 2008 15:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>In fact, VMware uses local nbd today for its vmware-loop helper >>utility, most likely because of the above-mentioned reasons. (Though >>it quite often hung last time I tried.) > >seems this will go away. recent vmware versions (e.g. server 2.0 >beta) have a fuse based replacement for that.
How will that work? Fuse makes up a filesystem - not helpful if you have a raw disk without a known fs to mount. >>So what we have is non-linearity -- LBA 22 comes after LBA 40 -- loop >>does not deal with that. > >maybe dm-loop does? http://sources.redhat.com/lvm2/wiki/DMLoop This still does not account for compressed disk images, for example. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
