From: Franz Fischer (Franz.Fischer@franz-fischer.de)
Date: Sun Mar 21 2004 - 13:58:04 EST
There has been one response (thanks Iain) to my question regarding a
loopback filesystem / disk driver for Tru64 UNIX (formerly Digital UNIX):
There are two similar (and unsupported) ``loopback disk drivers'', but
unfortunately non of them works fully on 4.0G:
- The ldisk driver, which worked for me on 4.0D seems to partially fail on
4.0G (mounting a device associated with an iso image file fails).
It seems that the source for this driver got lost within HP...
- The dkless driver: ``The dkless module enables Digital Unix to page to
a file. The dkless support provides a block mode device which is
associated, by the user, to a filepath.'' (From the dkless
configuration instructions.)
I received a copy of this (also unsupported) driver for Tru64 5.1A/B.
Regards,
\franz
Original Question:
> To: tru64-unix-managers@ornl.gov
> Subject: experimental loopback filesystem/disk driver
>
> Hello all,
>
> several years ago I managed to get (via a summary on this list) a
> copy of an experimental (``no warranty, etc.'') loopback disk driver
> (ldisk) for Digital UNIX 4.0D. This worked fine for me and I used it
> frequently for reviewing / verifying iso CD images.
>
> Unfortunately it seems that this version does not work on 4.0G (I did
> not really expect this), which currently prevents me from upgrading.
>
> Does anyone know of a ldisk.mod + ldisk_configure for 4.0G?
> I would appreciate to get a copy of this very useful driver, if possible.
>
> In the hope that this piece of software did not get lost on the
> DEC/Compaq/HP transitions...
-- Franz G. Fischer ----------------------------- Franz.Fischer@franz-fischer.de
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