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

[Juergen Lock]

On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 01:06:24PM -0600, Warren Block wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Sep 2010, Juergen Lock wrote:
> 
> > 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...
> 
> Dumping the partitions of that FreeBSD system worked just now.  Not what 
> I'd call a thorough test, but it did read everything in the filesystem 
> without problems.

Ok that sounds promising...  Someone want to do more tests or should I
just commit the port? :)

 Thanx,
	Juergen