from netbsd; vnd.4 manpage

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-#	$NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.20 1995/11/28 08:03:22 jtc Exp $
+#	$NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.21 1995/12/30 18:10:47 thorpej Exp $
 #	@(#)Makefile	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/18/93
 
 MAN=	audio.4 bpf.4 ccd.4 clnp.4 cltp.4 ddb.4 drum.4 esis.4 fd.4 icmp.4 \
 	idp.4 imp.4 inet.4 ip.4 iso.4 lkm.4 lo.4 netintro.4 ns.4 nsip.4 \
-	null.4 pty.4 route.4 spp.4 tb.4 tcp.4 termios.4 tty.4 tp.4 udp.4 unix.4
+	null.4 pty.4 route.4 spp.4 tb.4 tcp.4 termios.4 tty.4 tp.4 udp.4 \
+	unix.4 vnd.4
 MLINKS+=fd.4 stderr.4 fd.4 stdin.4 fd.4 stdout.4
 MLINKS+=netintro.4 networking.4
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diff --git a/share/man/man4/vnd.4 b/share/man/man4/vnd.4
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+.\"	$NetBSD: vnd.4,v 1.1 1995/12/30 18:10:48 thorpej Exp $
+.\"
+.\" Copyright (c) 1995 Jason R. Thorpe.
+.\" All rights reserved.
+.\"
+.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
+.\" are met:
+.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
+.\"    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
+.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
+.\"    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
+.\"    documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
+.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
+.\"    must display the following acknowledgement:
+.\"	This product includes software developed for the NetBSD Project
+.\"	by Jason R. Thorpe.
+.\" 4. Neither the name of the author nor the names of its contributors
+.\"    may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
+.\"    without specific prior written permission.
+.\"
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+.\" AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY,
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+.\"
+.Dd December 30, 1995
+.Dt VND 4
+.Os NetBSD
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm vnd
+.Nd Vnode Disk Driver
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Cd "pseudo-device vnd 4"
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The
+.Nm
+driver provides a disk-like interface to a file.  This is useful for
+a variety of applications, including swap files and building miniroot
+or floppy disk images.
+.Pp
+This document assumes that you're familiar with how to generate kernels,
+how to properly configure disks and pseudo-devices in a kernel
+configuration file.
+.Pp
+In order to compile in support for the vnd, you must add a line similar
+to the following to your kernel configuration file:
+.Bd -unfilled -offset indent
+pseudo-device	vnd	4	# vnode disk driver
+.Ed
+.Pp
+The count argument is how many
+.Nm vnds
+memory is allocated for a boot time.  In this example, no more than 4
+.Nm vnds
+may be configured.
+.Pp
+There is a run-time utility that is used for configuring
+.Nm vnds .
+See
+.Xr vnconfig 8
+for more information.
+.Sh BUGS
+The
+.Nm
+driver does not work if the file does not reside in a local filesystem.
+.Sh FILES
+/dev/{,r}vnd* - vnd device special files.
+.Pp
+.Sh HISTORY
+The vnode disk driver was originally written at the University of
+Utah.
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr MAKEDEV 8 ,
+.Xr config 8 ,
+.Xr config.old 8 ,
+.Xr fsck 8 ,
+.Xr mount 8 ,
+.Xr newfs 8 ,
+.Xr vnconfig 8 .