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Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 16:55:01 -0700
From: Maxime Henrion <mux@freebsd.org>
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Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
Subject: Re: a virtual fs to allow root mounting of any fs without special code
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Peter Wemm wrote:
> So, this is to replace the pre-mountroot bdevvp etc kludges that we have?

Exactly.

> How do we solve the problem with the root fs being mounted read only and
> not having a /dev directory? 

This patch doesn't address these problems.  I guess I'll have either to
fix MNT_UNION so that it's actually useful, or write yet another mount
flag to solve this problem.

Maxime

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