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Date:      Fri, 25 May 2001 04:06:54 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com>, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: mount_mfs (Re: smbfs)
Message-ID:  <20010525040654.B1529@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010525033642.726F73E2F@bazooka.unixfreak.org>; from dima@unixfreak.org on Thu, May 24, 2001 at 08:36:42PM -0700
References:  <20010524195633.A39799@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010525033642.726F73E2F@bazooka.unixfreak.org>

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On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 08:36:42PM -0700, Dima Dorfman wrote:

> Sheldon Hearn posted a patch to add such a knob around January when we
> were having this exact discussion.  Personally, I think it only solves
> half a problem; what if you want /tmp and /tmp2?  And why should it be
> limited to boot-up?  Perhaps there's use for a program which emulates
> mount_mfs using md.
>=20
> I actually wrote a short program that emulates *all* of mount_mfs's
> umpteen options with md, disklabel, and newfs, but nobody seemed
> interested.  My choice of name (mount_md) wasn't particuarly good,
> either.  Look at the -hackers and cvs-all archives around late January
> and early February for the discussions.  I still have that program,
> and it works great, so perhaps I should make it a port (comments?).

Just fix it, please :-) Preserving backwards compatibility is rarely a
bad thing.

Kris

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