Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 21:29:16 +0100 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: Gordon Tetlow <gordont@gnf.org> Cc: phk@freebsd.org, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/geom geom_vol_ffs.c Message-ID: <xzp3cn56rc3.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <20030203202355.GF98559@roark.gnf.org> (Gordon Tetlow's message of "Mon, 3 Feb 2003 12:23:55 -0800") References: <11633.1044300113@critter.freebsd.dk> <xzphebl6t4p.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20030203202355.GF98559@roark.gnf.org>
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Gordon Tetlow <gordont@gnf.org> writes: > On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 08:50:30PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > - I would be very happy if the device nodes in /dev/vol/ were > > actually symlinks to the underlying device - provided that's > > possible without introducing major ugliness into the code. > Would you then be able to mount your root device from /dev/vol if it was a > symlink? root@des /dev# ln -s ad1d foo root@des /dev# ll foo lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3 Feb 3 21:28 foo@ -> ad1d root@des /dev# mount -t ufs /dev/foo /mnt root@des /dev# mount | grep mnt /dev/foo on /mnt (ufs, local, soft-updates) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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