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Date:      Tue, 22 Oct 2002 11:13:09 +0200
From:      Marc Olzheim <marcolz@stack.nl>
To:        David Yeske <dyeske@yahoo.com>
Cc:        Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kernel + mfsroot article review
Message-ID:  <20021022091309.GA74895@stack.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20021018234201.4242.qmail@web13507.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20021018161933.A85798@carp.icir.org> <20021018234201.4242.qmail@web13507.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 04:42:01PM -0700, David Yeske wrote:
> MD_ROOT_SIZE is only needed for write_mfs_in_kernel.  When write_mfs_in_kernel was removed the
> code that used it was not though.  I don't think it is still being used though.  A couple of files
> still reference it:  src/sys/dev/md/md.c has ifdefs for it, src/release/Makefile still compiles it
> on stable, src/sys/conf/options still defines it in opt_md.h, src/sys/i386/conf/LINT still has an
> example...
> 
> MFS_ROOT_SIZE seems to be even more stale.
> 
> phk probably knows for sure though...

I, for one, still use it to do remote net installs via dhcp/tftp. Works
like a charm, together with write_mfs_in_kernel...

Zlo

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