Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 12:34:43 -0800 From: Gordon Tetlow <gordont@gnf.org> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.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: <20030203203443.GH98559@roark.gnf.org> In-Reply-To: <xzp3cn56rc3.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> References: <11633.1044300113@critter.freebsd.dk> <xzphebl6t4p.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20030203202355.GF98559@roark.gnf.org> <xzp3cn56rc3.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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--K1n7F7fSdjvFAEnM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 09:29:16PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > 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 wa= s a > > symlink? >=20 > 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) Right, but I'm wondering if there is difference because I'm thinking in terms of a root mount, not just a regular mount. phk could probably say more about that. -gordon --K1n7F7fSdjvFAEnM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+PtJjRu2t9DV9ZfsRAremAKCOwpbLAcwNvE7tpN4bafThGJoJSQCcDmCk o9x5YVqBkXeulVlfJlwz4Ho= =uZ4h -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --K1n7F7fSdjvFAEnM-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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