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Date:      Sun, 04 Feb 2001 17:32:20 -0800
From:      Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
To:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
Cc:        Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mdconfig config file (was: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERI C) 
Message-ID:  <20010205013225.A94233E02@bazooka.unixfreak.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>  of "Mon, 05 Feb 2001 01:46:38 %2B0200." <49988.981330398@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> 

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> On Sat, 03 Feb 2001 01:39:48 CST, Mike Meyer wrote:
> 
> > Looking at all the functionality needed, I think it was becase someone
> > wanted to avoid exec'ing programs, and putting it all in newfs caused
> > the least code duplication.
> 
> Makes you wonder whether it's really worth trying to squeeze mdconfig(8)
> into the shoes that mount_*(8) wear so comfortably.

The plan now is to make a mount_md which will execute mdconfig,
disklabel, newfs, etc. with the correct arguments.  So far it's
working out quite nicely.  See the thread on -hackers.

					Dima Dorfman
					dima@unixfreak.org


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