From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 20 13:54:28 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A188816A4CE for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 13:54:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E967843D60 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 13:54:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i0KLsLCf010026; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 22:54:21 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 20 Jan 2004 22:51:11 +0100." <9987.1074635471@critter.freebsd.dk> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 22:54:21 +0100 Message-ID: <10025.1074635661@critter.freebsd.dk> cc: current@freebsd.org cc: Tim Kientzle Subject: Re: REVIEW: cleanvar.patch X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 21:54:28 -0000 In message <9987.1074635471@critter.freebsd.dk>, "Poul-Henning Kamp" writes: >In message <20040120214533.GC11747@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>, Brooks Davis writes: > >>> P.S. Hmmm... It looks like it would be easy for >>> libarchive to also read mtree files. Then >>> bsdtar's built-in features for converting archive formats >>> on-the-fly might be useful here. Hmmm.... >> >>This would deal with my concerns about making all the directories. This >>would yeild a reasionable, single stage method of creating source files >>for populating directories without requiring mtree. I like this idea. > >Considering that we are talking about a checked in mtree file, it would >be a lot simpler to have a tool convert it to a shellscript and run that >from /etc/rc.* > >Either way, my patch is clearly not way out of line and will not be s/not// sorry. >committed and I doubt I will ever get it reworked, but I still urge >the RC-team to keep 'single read-only filesystem' configs in mind, >we have a lot of the code in the diskless case, it should just be >available also for people booting CF-cards in embedded boxes, CDroms >with "live systems" etc. > >-- >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. >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- 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.