Loopback filesystem support?

[Jeff Walters]

On Thursday 03 April 2003 01:23 am, W. Sierke wrote:
> From: "Rus Foster" <rghf at fsck.me.uk>
>
> > Hi All,
> >  Does FreeBSD have any support for loopback filesystems. i.e. I mean
> > being able to mount a file as a filesystem ala Linux. Googling didn't
> > chuck back much and the nearest I found was mount_null. Is it possible?
>
> man vn
> man vnconfig
> /dev/vn*
>

See also:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks-virtual.html

vnconfig goes away in favor of mdconfig in FreeBSD 5.0.

Jeff