Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 12:38:30 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Cc: phk@critter.tfs.com, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Add new slice to running system, comments? Message-ID: <199601090208.MAA04083@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199601082010.NAA10288@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Jan 8, 96 01:10:33 pm
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Terry Lambert stands accused of saying: > > > > That still doesn't achieve what I want, which is for 'native' FreeBSD > > > disk slices to be able to exist _inside_ a FAT filesystem. > > > > Yes in fact it would. No it wouldn't; you can't _boot_ from a vnode device. I don't know if you read -questions on a regular basis, but the number of people who go past making unhappy "but I have a disk full of DOS filesystem" noises is steadily growing. > > It is the only way to avoid the terrible problems you get into if for > > instance I > > rm -f /dos/C/WINDOWS.SWP > > while you swap on it. That comes into the 'don't do that' category until the FAT filesystem code is reworked and one can add hooks for this sort of thing. > Shouldn't this (well, loose meaning of "should" in this case, since I don't > agree with half of the VEXEC crap) result in an EBUSY? The net result of such an attempt "should" be a failure to delete the file, regardless of the error code 8) > Terry Lambert -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[
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