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Date:      Tue, 24 Oct 2000 14:34:56 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp)
Cc:        des@ofug.org (Dag-Erling Smorgrav), mbendiks@eunet.no (Marius Bendiksen), arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Ideas concerning fsck
Message-ID:  <200010241435.HAA28287@usr05.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <19690.972397162@critter> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Oct 24, 2000 04:19:22 PM

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> The idea I have been toying with is to mount DEVFS as / and mount
> the "real" root on top of it with a unionmount. 
> 
> Amongst the things this would allow is a kind of "persistence" for
> /dev (should anybody still want that) and various trickery like
> mirror/raid initializations could be performed from userland 
> before mounting the "real" root.

Yes, this is absolutely the right way to do this.  Another
simplification is to mount into the mounted FS list, and then
map into the namespace, as a seperate, second step.  This would
permit all of the mount point covering code to be moved to
higher level common code in the mount system call.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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