Can an ISO file be mounted from /etc/fstab at boot?

[Lowell Gilbert]

Oscar Hodgson <oscar.hodgson at gmail.com> writes:

> I'm pretty sure the answer is "no, just write a local rc script to do
> that", but thought I'd check.
>
> Can't see any hint of that capability in the handbook or fstab(5).
>
> Really just looking for a single point of management for file systems ....

I don't see a way offhand. You need to do the mdconfig before you can
mount, and I don't think that can be done inside of fstab. 

I think that adding such a capability to mount(8) as a program option
would be a fairly minor hack.