From owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 2 18:20:22 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F6D116A427 for ; Fri, 2 Sep 2005 18:20:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E81F43D45 for ; Fri, 2 Sep 2005 18:20:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j82IKMrh060232 for ; Fri, 2 Sep 2005 18:20:22 GMT (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.13.3/8.13.1/Submit) id j82IKM73060231; Fri, 2 Sep 2005 18:20:22 GMT (envelope-from gnats) Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 18:20:22 GMT Message-Id: <200509021820.j82IKM73060231@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" Cc: Subject: Re: kern/85649: [patch] allow mounting msdos files systems as root device X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Poul-Henning Kamp List-Id: Bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 18:20:22 -0000 The following reply was made to PR kern/85649; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" To: Ben Thomas Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/85649: [patch] allow mounting msdos files systems as root device Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 20:10:58 +0200 In message <4318925B.6070507@virtualiron.com>, Ben Thomas writes: >Support mounting of msdosfs file systems as root. Yes, it's unusual. Yes, >it was needed. > >This patch is against the 5_4_0_RELEASE code This should already work in 6.x -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.