Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 07:51:21 +0000 From: Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk> To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: userland|unprivileged file system handling tools Message-ID: <6.0.3.0.2.20040323074601.03672650@gid.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040322174509.A28739@xorpc.icir.org> References: <20040322174509.A28739@xorpc.icir.org>
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Hi, At 01:45 23/03/2004, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> wrote: >We seem to lack tools that allow the generation/handling of file >system images without root privs. The 'standard techniques' used >to build the bootable floppies rely on vnconfig/mdconfig, disklabel, >fsck and mknod which all must run as root. > >Colin Percival pointed me to ports/sysutils/makefs which builds an >almost correct fs image -- it has a couple of bugs, one which is >trivially fixed, the other one which could be cured by a pass of >fsck. There is still the issue of creating a label for the image >(which right now i do using a small C program), and handling device >nodes (not an issue on 5.x, but this could be possibly fixed with >some makefs extension). > >So: > > + is there interest in having makefs become part of the > standard system, instead of a port ? Why not just teach newfs to work on a plain file too, ... > + how hard would it be to teach disklabel and fsck to > work on files (filesystem images) as well as devices ? ... which really shouldn't be hard. Although you might want to have the capability protected by an option to avoid mistakenly creating weird files under /dev. >cheers >luigi > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Bob Bishop +44 (0)118 977 4017 rb@gid.co.uk fax +44 (0)118 989 4254
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