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Date:      Wed, 14 Aug 2013 08:10:41 -0500
From:      Eric van Gyzen <eric@vangyzen.net>
To:        stable@freebsd.org, Simon Gerraty <sjg@FreeBSD.org>,  Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   makefs Sparse Files: NetBSD CLI Compatibility
Message-ID:  <520B81D1.1010500@vangyzen.net>

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NetBSD's makefs has a -Z flag to create the image as a sparse file.  In
FreeBSD, the flag is spelled -p.  Is there a reason for using a
different flag?  It would be very nice to preserve CLI compatibility
with NetBSD.

NetBSD committed first (by one month), and neither change has gone into
a release yet, so we should change to match NetBSD.  We should do it
soon, too, since our change will go into 9.2-RELEASE.

If we agree, I'll gladly make the patches, trivial though they'll be.

Eric



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