From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 19 05:37:25 2003 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 892A737B401 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 05:37:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (esplanaden.cybercity.dk [212.242.40.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC6CE43FB1 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 05:37:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h5JCbKjR003136; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 14:37:20 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) To: Johny Mattsson From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 19 Jun 2003 22:26:07 +1000." <3EF1ABDF.8080605@earthmagic.org> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 14:37:20 +0200 Message-ID: <3135.1056026240@critter.freebsd.dk> cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: support for mounting md(4) based filesystem at boot [PATCHES] 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: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 12:37:25 -0000 In message <3EF1ABDF.8080605@earthmagic.org>, Johny Mattsson writes: >Hi all, > >As promised a couple of days ago, here's the patch set to allow for >mounting of md(4) based filesystems at boot time: >http://www.earthmagic.org/~lonewolf/FreeBSD/mdmount.tar.gz > >This archive contains a number of files, including four rc.d scripts, a >rc.conf diff, a couple of datafiles and some manpages for said data files. I have not read you patch, and as such have no opinion on if it should go into the tree or not, but I have some general comments to make on this overall subject. I think we need somebody to reconsider how we configure our filesystems in the future, in order to avoid a confusion of config files whose interrelationship users will have no chance of figuring out. We have CCD, GBDE, MD and in the future likely other technologies for configuring the underlying devices, we have FSCK, UFS and NFS and other filesystems to mount. Somebody must be able to come up with some creative stuff here... ? -- 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.