Perhaps a bit off-topic, but figured this might be a good question to pose to the list before I go off re-inventing the wheel again... Has anyone, or does anyone know of, a way to directly mount or utilize and iso image file as a filesystem? I'd like to use samba to create a series of shares based on ISO images; assuming one can mount an ISO image file one could in theory serve windows clients as a cdrom archive (of course assuming performance loss vs dealing with an extracted/actual cdrom). Anyone have any ideas where I may go with this? Using FreeBSD as the underlying O/S on 64bit dual AMD Opteron hardware if it matters any. -- Nathan Vidican nvidican@wmptl.com Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://www.wmptl.com/
>Has anyone, or does anyone know of, a way to directly mount or utilize and >iso image file as a filesystem? I'd like to use samba to create a series of >shares based on ISO images; assuming one can mount an ISO image file one > >Any reason to use seperate shares? Many programs will deal with their install data being not directly attached to a drive letter, and even so, you could still mount a drive below the root of a share. (net use q: \\server\sharename\somedirinsidetheshare) How about if you were to create one share that housed several subdirectories. Use those subdirs as automount keys with the relevant data for automounting in place.>could in theory serve windows clients as a cdrom archive (of course assuming >performance loss vs dealing with an extracted/actual cdrom). Anyone have any >ideas where I may go with this? Using FreeBSD as the underlying O/S on 64bit >dual AMD Opteron hardware if it matters any. > > >-- >Nathan Vidican >nvidican@wmptl.com >Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. >http://www.wmptl.com/ > > > >-- Paul Gienger Office: 701-281-1884 Applied Engineering Inc. Systems Architect Fax: 701-281-1322 URL: www.ae-solutions.com mailto: pgienger@ae-solutions.com
On 5/25/05, Nathan Vidican wrote:> Perhaps a bit off-topic, but figured this might be a good question to pose > to the list before I go off re-inventing the wheel again... > > Has anyone, or does anyone know of, a way to directly mount or utilize and > iso image file as a filesystem? I'd like to use samba to create a series of > shares based on ISO images; assuming one can mount an ISO image file one > could in theory serve windows clients as a cdrom archive (of course assuming > performance loss vs dealing with an extracted/actual cdrom). Anyone have any > ideas where I may go with this? Using FreeBSD as the underlying O/S on 64bit > dual AMD Opteron hardware if it matters any. > > -- > Nathan Vidican > nvidican@wmptl.com > Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. > http://www.wmptl.com/With Linux, what you dscribe is very easy, not sure about FreeBSD. With Linux you would just use a loopback mount to mount the image. ie. mount -o loop /path_to_iso1 /path_to_mount_point1 Then use Samba to share the mount_points Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century
Actually mounting the iso image from and HD is much faster than reading from an actual cdrom ! Il 25 May 2005 alle 14:51 Nathan Vidican immise in rete> Has anyone, or does anyone know of, a way to directly mount or utilize > and iso image file as a filesystem? I'd like to use samba to create a > series of shares based on ISO images; assuming one can mount an ISO > image file one could in theory serve windows clients as a cdrom > archive (of course assuming performance loss vs dealing with an > extracted/actual cdrom). Anyone have any ideas where I may go with > this? Using FreeBSD as the underlying O/S on 64bit dual AMD Opteron > hardware if it matters any.-- Leonardo Boselli Nucleo Informatico e Telematico del Dipartimento Ingegneria Civile Universita` di Firenze , V. S. Marta 3 - I-50139 Firenze tel +39 0554796431 cell +39 3488605348 fax +39 055495333 http://www.dicea.unifi.it/~leo