On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Uros Lampret wrote:

I know there is Virtual Local Drive software called SnapDrive for Win NT and 2000. Is there similar software to do this on UNIX. I have an aplication that don't want to run from NFS mount. I need to mount this in the way that OS will see it as local drive. I use IBM AIX.

FreeBSD has the "vn" (vnode) device driver which, among other things, can be used to map a file to a block or character device which can then be mounted as if it were a disk. The underlying assumption is that the file itself is a disk/filesystem image. Not sure if AIX has a similar mechanism.