At Wed, 26 Mar 2025 20:46:42 +0000, David Holland <dholland-t...@netbsd.org> wrote: Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/sbin/umount > > It looks like we (still) don't have the ability to implicitly (or even > explicitly) configure a vnd when you try to mount a file, which Linux > has had for a long time. But we should really get that sometime.
Indeed.
> It's really fundamentally different from things like raids that have
> independent existence.
I've long thought vnd(4) should be a "cloning" device to avoid the
inevitable search for unused, or assignment of explicit, device numbers.
Maybe this would all make a good GSoC project (e.g. to suggest to all
those who are otherwise eager to pick the seemingly singularly most
popular project).
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