Anyone heard of an open source tool to read ISO images?

[Jason Stephenson]

Every distro that I've ever used, Slackware, Red Hat, Debian, Mandrake, 
had support for loopback devices compiled in the generic kernel.

I don't recall if FreeBSD includes support for vn (loopback) devices by 
default or not. I know I have it compiled in my kernel.

Just so you know, you can mount other kinds of file system images with 
the loop back device as well: FAT, EXT, etc. Whatever filesystem your 
kernel supports you can mount an image file of. You can even make your 
own image files, which is handy for making bootable CD and floppy images 
if you want a filesystem other than the default.

I sometimes make file-based filesystems for special purposes when I want 
some of the benefits of a separate partition or a particular filesystem 
type, but don't feel like re-partitioning the drive.

Hewitt Tech wrote:
> Is loopback device support the default for most kernels?
> 
> -Alex
>