Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 13:47:54 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> To: "diz@linuxpowered.com" <diz@linuxpowered.com> Cc: "current@freebsd.org" <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: userland|unprivileged file system handling tools Message-ID: <20040324134715.N88409@qbhto.arg> In-Reply-To: <60523.24.0.61.35.1080081768.squirrel@webmail.linuxpowered.com> References: <60523.24.0.61.35.1080081768.squirrel@webmail.linuxpowered.com>
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On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, diz@linuxpowered.com wrote:
> hi,
>
> Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> > We seem to lack tools that allow the generation/handling of file
> > system images without root privs. The 'standard techniques' used
> > to build the bootable floppies rely on vnconfig/mdconfig, disklabel,
> > fsck and mknod which all must run as root.
> >
>
> As far as -current goes, mknod is not anything worth mentioning because of
> devfs.
I disagree with this assessment. mknod is still useful in -current, for
instance in a chroot setup where you only need one or two devices.
Doug
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