Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 12:30:48 -0700 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: Maxime Henrion <mux@freebsd.org> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a virtual fs to allow root mounting of any fs without special code Message-ID: <20020525193048.6CF503807@overcee.wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <20020524235501.GH496@elvis.mu.org>
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Maxime Henrion wrote: > Peter Wemm wrote: > > So, this is to replace the pre-mountroot bdevvp etc kludges that we have? > > Exactly. > > > How do we solve the problem with the root fs being mounted read only and > > not having a /dev directory? > > This patch doesn't address these problems. I guess I'll have either to > fix MNT_UNION so that it's actually useful, or write yet another mount > flag to solve this problem. Or figure out a way to mount a file system on a non-existing directory entry.. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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