[Planetlab-arch] Anybody done this

[Steve Muir]

micro-response:

On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Joe Armstrong wrote:

>   Also I'd like to make ext2 file systems *inside* files and binaries -
> and send complete ext2 filesystems in binaries as messages.

you can already do this in Linux using loopback mounts e.g., one can mount
an ISO CD-ROM image at a certain mountpoint and access the contents of the
image as a (read-only) directory tree.  other UNIX-like systems may have
equivalent functionality.

cheers,

steve