Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 09:01:53 -0400 From: Keith Stevenson <keith.stevenson@louisville.edu> To: Marius Bendiksen <mbendiks@eunet.no> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ideas concerning fsck Message-ID: <20001024090152.A10742@osaka.louisville.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10010241454130.45854-100000@login-1.eunet.no>; from mbendiks@eunet.no on Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 02:57:16PM %2B0200 References: <20001024084509.B10509@osaka.louisville.edu> <Pine.BSF.4.05.10010241454130.45854-100000@login-1.eunet.no>
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On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 02:57:16PM +0200, Marius Bendiksen wrote: > > I made no claim wrt that. The reference to "less magic in the boot > sequence" was related to discovering the boot device and such. And > it would be possible for us to remove the need to rely on the root > filesystem being uncorrupt. Ok. I must have misunderstood. > > > The bootfs idea is pretty neat. I would like to see it implemented in > > FreeBSD, especially if it would make vinum disks usable for the / filesystem. > > I use this whenever I do vinum based solutions, by having a minimal root > filesystem as a memory filesystem, then starting vinum to be able to bring > up the real root filesystem. Is there documentation somewhere on how to do this? I've looked at the memory based filesystem stuff before, but was unable to figure out what steps needed to be performed in order to boot from it. Regards, --Keith Stevenson-- -- Keith Stevenson System Programmer - Data Center Services - University of Louisville keith.stevenson@louisville.edu GPG key fingerprint = 332D 97F0 6321 F00F 8EE7 2D44 00D8 F384 75BB 89AE To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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