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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


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