From owner-freebsd-current Fri May 25 7:27:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from lists01.iafrica.com (lists01.iafrica.com [196.7.0.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFAA337B422 for ; Fri, 25 May 2001 07:27:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sheldonh@uunet.co.za) Received: from nwl.fw.uunet.co.za ([196.31.2.162]) by lists01.iafrica.com with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #2) id 153IYx-0006Ym-00; Fri, 25 May 2001 16:27:35 +0200 Received: (from nobody@localhost) by nwl.fw.uunet.co.za (8.8.8/8.6.9) id QAA25059; Fri, 25 May 2001 16:27:34 +0200 (SAST) Received: by nwl.fw.uunet.co.za via recvmail id 24780; Fri May 25 16:26:49 2001 Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.fw.uunet.co.za) by axl.fw.uunet.co.za with local-esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 153IYC-000Njw-00; Fri, 25 May 2001 16:26:48 +0200 To: Mikhail Teterin Cc: dima@unixfreak.org, kris@obsecurity.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mount_mfs (Re: smbfs) In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 25 May 2001 09:34:16 -0400." <200105251334.f4PDYJB40172@aldan.algebra.com> Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 16:26:48 +0200 Message-ID: <91259.990800808@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> From: Sheldon Hearn Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 25 May 2001 09:34:16 -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > Why can't that program _replace_ mount_mfs? And assume the name too? The objection that impressed me the last time this was suggested is that it's totally counter-intuitive to have a binary called mount_mfs that doesn't mount an MFS filesystem. Rather, it does all sorts of icky extra stuff to achieve a rather specific goal. I still don't see why an rc.conf knob specifically for /tmp isn't sufficient. That's what people want this for. Others can read the excellent documentation supplied in mdconfig(8), which is appropriately cross-referenced from md(4), which is the manual page for the device concerned. Logical, orthogonal and pretty damn easy, when you look at the EXAMPLES section. :-) Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message