From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 20 00:36:27 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 62E7037B401 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 2003 00:36:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from helios.earthmagic.org (helios.earthmagic.org [198.78.66.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8658A43F85 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 2003 00:36:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lonewolf@earthmagic.org) Received: (qmail 5632 invoked from network); 20 Jun 2003 07:36:25 -0000 Received: from ppp1096.vic.padsl.internode.on.net (HELO earthmagic.org) (lonewolf@150.101.221.71) by helios.earthmagic.org with RC4-MD5 encrypted SMTP; 20 Jun 2003 07:36:25 -0000 Message-ID: <3EF2BA56.6090906@earthmagic.org> Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 17:40:06 +1000 From: Johny Mattsson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030524 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Poul-Henning Kamp References: <6908.1056092503@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <6908.1056092503@critter.freebsd.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: Johny Mattsson 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: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 07:36:27 -0000 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > I don't know exactly what I am looking for, if I did, I'd just implement > it, but I think that we should be able describe our disk configuration > with just one single file in a human+program parseable format, rather > than having to have one file per "gadget". Sounds to me like if we indeed do this, we might have to move away from the traditional fstab (in order to deal better with dependencies), which I'm not sure is such a good idea. Then again, prior to 5.2 is probably the best chance we'll have for another couple of years to make such a drastic change. I'll give it some thought and come up with a draft proposal (unless someone else does it first). If anyone has recommendations on manpages, URLs, etc that they think would be useful background info, please let me know - for many of the 'gadgets' I'll be learning as I go. Cheers, /Johny -- Johny Mattsson - System Designer ,-. ,-. ,-. There is no truth. http://www.earthmagic.org _.' `-' `-' There is only perception.