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Date:      Fri, 02 Feb 2001 12:31:56 -0800
From:      Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
To:        Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
Cc:        mi@aldan.algebra.com, deischen@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: mdconfig config file (was: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERI C) 
Message-ID:  <20010202203201.9DC693E02@bazooka.unixfreak.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>  of "Fri, 02 Feb 2001 10:49:53 PST." <200102021849.f12Inri90700@earth.backplane.com> 

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> :=    Why not write a 'mount_md' program to do all the magic based on fstab
> :=    options, similar to what mount_mfs used to do for MFS?  A 'mount_md' 
> :=    would give us instant integration into existing kernel mechanisms,
> :=    including startup (/etc/rc) mechanisms.
> :
<snip>
> 
>     (this whole thing is predicated on someone writing a mount_md wrapper
>     for MD that mimics the options mount_mfs accepts, for compatibility).

I'll do it.  Would it be safe to assume that it's acceptable to write
a C program to parse the arguments, build command lines to
appropriately invoke disklabel, newfs, maybe tunefs, and mount, then
call system(3) to execute them?

					Dima Dorfman
					dima@unixfreak.org


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