From owner-cvs-all Sun Feb 4 17:32:43 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from bazooka.unixfreak.org (bazooka.unixfreak.org [63.198.170.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E469637B491 for ; Sun, 4 Feb 2001 17:32:25 -0800 (PST) Received: by bazooka.unixfreak.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A94233E02; Sun, 4 Feb 2001 17:32:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from unixfreak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bazooka.unixfreak.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7F163C10B; Sun, 4 Feb 2001 17:32:25 -0800 (PST) To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: Mike Meyer , cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mdconfig config file (was: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERI C) In-Reply-To: Message from Sheldon Hearn of "Mon, 05 Feb 2001 01:46:38 +0200." <49988.981330398@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 17:32:20 -0800 From: Dima Dorfman Message-Id: <20010205013225.A94233E02@bazooka.unixfreak.org> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > On Sat, 03 Feb 2001 01:39:48 CST, Mike Meyer wrote: > > > Looking at all the functionality needed, I think it was becase someone > > wanted to avoid exec'ing programs, and putting it all in newfs caused > > the least code duplication. > > Makes you wonder whether it's really worth trying to squeeze mdconfig(8) > into the shoes that mount_*(8) wear so comfortably. The plan now is to make a mount_md which will execute mdconfig, disklabel, newfs, etc. with the correct arguments. So far it's working out quite nicely. See the thread on -hackers. Dima Dorfman dima@unixfreak.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message