Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 09:39:05 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Cc: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libdisk Makefile chunk.c write_alpha_disk.c write_i386_disk.c write_pc98_disk.c Message-ID: <49735.1035707945@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 26 Oct 2002 18:22:15 MST." <20021027012215.GB57794@dragon.nuxi.com>
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In message <20021027012215.GB57794@dragon.nuxi.com>, "David O'Brien" writes: >On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 06:37:52PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> 3: Aliasing disk devices is a bad idea. You don't want people >> to accidentally mount /dev/da0a and /dev/da0s1a at the same >> time so you have to add complexity to your kernel side code >> to prevent this. > >Actually you do. I have used this trick MANY times to fix messed up >/etc/fstab's and pre-devfs missing nodes in /dev. The ability to do >this double mounting has been a big help. "at the same time" as in: mount /dev/da0a /mnt mount /dev/da0s1a /mnt2 -- 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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