Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 11:05:33 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Patrik Sundberg <ps@raditex.se> Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mfs and imagefile (/usr/src/sbin/newfs/mkfs.c) Message-ID: <329.934448733@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 10 Aug 1999 16:32:45 %2B0200." <19990810163402.B10448@radiac.sickla.raditex.se>
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>We asked Andrzej Bialecki(picobsd) about it and he too thought the -F flag was >the way to accomplish this, but later came to the same conclusion as we did. The -F flag was added because we didn't have a working vn(4) at the time and Jordan and I were sick and tired of make release falling over because of sick floppy disks. It works the opposite of what you want: it preserves the contents of the MFS after you unmount it. Feel free to add code for what you suggest, but make it read the input from a filedescriptor so that I can gunzip < mfs.image.gz | mount_mfs ... -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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