From owner-freebsd-arch Sat May 25 12:30:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from evilpete.dyndns.org (12-232-26-46.client.attbi.com [12.232.26.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A2C037B401; Sat, 25 May 2002 12:30:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from overcee.wemm.org ([10.0.0.3]) by evilpete.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g4PJUm149129; Sat, 25 May 2002 12:30:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CF503807; Sat, 25 May 2002 12:30:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Maxime Henrion Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a virtual fs to allow root mounting of any fs without special code In-Reply-To: <20020524235501.GH496@elvis.mu.org> Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 12:30:48 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20020525193048.6CF503807@overcee.wemm.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Maxime Henrion wrote: > Peter Wemm wrote: > > So, this is to replace the pre-mountroot bdevvp etc kludges that we have? > > Exactly. > > > How do we solve the problem with the root fs being mounted read only and > > not having a /dev directory? > > This patch doesn't address these problems. I guess I'll have either to > fix MNT_UNION so that it's actually useful, or write yet another mount > flag to solve this problem. Or figure out a way to mount a file system on a non-existing directory entry.. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message