Loopback filesyste,/device for mounting ISO/Filesystem Images - now wvailabe on HP-UX 11i v2 0904?

[Alzhy]

Has someone checked if there is already loopback device support with HP-UX 11.23 (SEP 2004). Such device support will allow ISO and other Filesystem file images to be mounted.

For example on Linux:

mount -o loopback,ro -t iso9660 /somepath/software.iso /mnt/iso

where software.iso is a CDROm image that a UNIX user wishes to access the contents w/o necessarily burning it onto a CDROM media...

I thought that there were rfc's/rfe's submitted to HP some months/years back?

[Steven E. Protter]

Nelson, I've been able to make Linux install images(essentially unzipped iso files) available on HP-UX for years.

I just take the contents of what the cd's are and post them to directories available via Samba share.

Windows and Linux users can use them without further processing or cd's.

SEP

[kapil chowksey]

This is a bit late, but ...

I just wrote an HPUX pseudo-driver (DLKM) which
does what the Linux -o loop does.

Can you send me a reference to the RFE ? Or the HP representative whom you submitted it through?