From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@athena.mit.edu> Subject: Re: Mounting a file?? Date: 28 May 1993 00:24:53 -0400
From: joel@rac2.wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman)
Date: Thu, 27 May 1993 21:33:36 GMT
A while back there was some discussion about mounting a file, but I
couldn't imagine why one would want to do that, so I ignored it. Now
I do want to mount a file. Basically, what I want to be able to do is
modify a diskimage file for dosemu without having to boot dosemu.
What you want is the loop device. Werner Almesberger
(almesber@bernina.ethz.ch) originally wrote some patches to do them, and
I've since rewritten them and given them to him to maintain.
Send him mail for more details.
Werner, whenever you're ready, I'll be happy to create a ALPHA/loop
directory for you on TSX-11....
- Ted