From owner-freebsd-audit Thu Mar 7 9:50:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-audit@freebsd.org Received: from harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net (harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F78C37B429; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 09:50:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0314.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.193.59] helo=mindspring.com) by harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16j22A-0005aJ-00; Thu, 07 Mar 2002 09:50:30 -0800 Message-ID: <3C87A856.E222EDD3@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 09:50:14 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Maxim Sobolev Cc: Michael Smith , hackers@FreeBSD.org, audit@FreeBSD.org, re@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Extending loader(8) for loading kerels/modules split across several disks References: <200203070900.g2790Ha04392@mass.dis.org> <3C8730FC.E88F85B4@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Maxim Sobolev wrote: > Michael Smith wrote: > > > Please review attached patch, which adds long overdue feature to our > > > loader(8), allowing it to load sequence of files as a single object. > > > > I don't like this. I would much rather see support for 'split' files > > implemented as a stacking filesystem layer like the gzip support, with > > the simple recognition of 'foo.gz.aa' as the first part of a split > > version of 'foo.gz', which in turn is recognised as a compressed version > > of 'foo'. > > I am curious how in this case the layer is going to know how many > parts the file contains? I'm curious how you're going to get the code to execute to do this layering, when it's spread across three floppy images. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-audit" in the body of the message