Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 11:19:46 -0400 From: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com> To: Glen Barber <gjb@freebsd.org> Cc: Simon Gerraty <sjg@freebsd.org>, "stable@freebsd.org" <stable@freebsd.org>, Eric van Gyzen <eric@vangyzen.net> Subject: Re: makefs Sparse Files: NetBSD CLI Compatibility Message-ID: <CAOgwaMsg6BocWp_H_ENyC9uGnyn25huHjiH=dJC=T_nb21GbmQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20130814140653.GG2241@glenbarber.us> References: <520B81D1.1010500@vangyzen.net> <20130814140653.GG2241@glenbarber.us>
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On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Glen Barber <gjb@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 08:10:41AM -0500, Eric van Gyzen wrote: > > NetBSD's makefs has a -Z flag to create the image as a sparse file. In > > FreeBSD, the flag is spelled -p. Is there a reason for using a > > different flag? It would be very nice to preserve CLI compatibility > > with NetBSD. > > > > NetBSD committed first (by one month), and neither change has gone into > > a release yet, so we should change to match NetBSD. We should do it > > soon, too, since our change will go into 9.2-RELEASE. > > > > If we agree, I'll gladly make the patches, trivial though they'll be. > > > > Can you please try the attached patch? > > Glen > > .Nd create a file system image from a directory tree or a mtree manifest an mtree +Provided for compatibiltiy with compatibility Thank you very much . Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
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