CFT: vdfuse port (was: Re: Mounting VirtualBox vdi files [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED])

[Juergen Lock]

On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 07:44:37PM -0600, Warren Block wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Sep 2010, Juergen Lock wrote:
> 
> > ...there is a much simpler fusefs tool in debian called vdfuse that I 
> > now finally made a port of.  I don't know how stable this is on 
> > FreeBSD or if there still may be bugs, so please give this a good test 
> > and post your results here.  Here's a simple example:
> >
> > 	# vdfuse -r -f ~nox/.VirtualBox/HardDisks/win7-64.vdi /mnt
> > 	# mdconfig -a -f /mnt/Partition2 -o readonly
> > 	md0
> > 	# mount -o ro -t ntfs /dev/md0 /mnt2
> > 	# ls -l /mnt2
> > 	...
> > 	# umount /mnt2
> > 	# mdconfig -d -u 0
> > 	# umount /mnt
> 
> It works for a .vdi of a UFS drive.  The BSD partitions show up on the 
> md0 device (md0a, etc).  Just a trivial test, but looks promising!

Yep, those kind of tests worked for me too, I just wasn't sure if it
also survives `heavy use', i.e. reading/writing/using files much on
the mounted fs.es...

 Thanx, :)
	Juergen