linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Allow NBD to be used locally

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Date:	Sun, 3 Feb 2008 01:54:41 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
To:	devzero@....de
cc:	Laurent.Vivier@...l.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, pavel@....cz
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow NBD to be used locally


On Feb 2 2008 18:31, devzero@....de wrote:
>
>> How will that work? Fuse makes up a filesystem - not helpful
>> if you have a raw disk without a known fs to mount.
>
>take zfs-fuse or ntfs-3g for example. 
>you have a blockdevice or backing-file containing data structures and fuse makes those show up as a filesystem.
>i think vmware-mount is not different here.

vmware-mount IS different, it provides the _block_ device,
which is then mounted through the usual mount(2) mechanism
(if there is a filesystem driver for it).
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