Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 11:21:00 +0200 From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> To: Michael Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.org> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, audit@FreeBSD.org, re@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Extending loader(8) for loading kerels/modules split across several disks Message-ID: <3C8730FC.E88F85B4@FreeBSD.org> References: <200203070900.g2790Ha04392@mass.dis.org>
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Michael Smith wrote: > > > Please review attached patch, which adds long overdue feature to our > > loader(8), allowing it to load sequence of files as a single object. > > I don't like this. I would much rather see support for 'split' files > implemented as a stacking filesystem layer like the gzip support, with > the simple recognition of 'foo.gz.aa' as the first part of a split > version of 'foo.gz', which in turn is recognised as a compressed version > of 'foo'. I am curious how in this case the layer is going to know how many parts the file contains? -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-audit" in the body of the message
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