> How will that work? Fuse makes up a filesystem - not helpful > if you have a raw disk without a known fs to mount.
take zfs-fuse or ntfs-3g for example. you have a blockdevice or backing-file containing data structures and fuse makes those show up as a filesystem. i think vmware-mount is not different here. > This still does not account for compressed disk images, for example. unfortunately, not > > > 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. > > ________________________________________________________ Bis 50 MB Dateianhänge? Kein Problem! http://www.digitaledienste.web.de/freemail/club/lp/?lp=7 -- 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/
