dholland-t...@netbsd.org (David Holland) writes: >But that's a backwards argument anyway. The point is that a vnd is a >shim whose purpose is to work around a weakness in the system >interfaces. (Namely, that you can't mount a fs image in a regular >file.) It has no state, and no semantics of its own either; it's just >a plug.
It adds some disk semantics to a file. >It is perfectly reasonable for mount to create a vnd automatically >when you ask it to mount an image that's a regular file, and dispose >of it equally automatically later. Assuming that some default or fabricated disk semantics are sufficient for the task.
