Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 18:19:50 -0700 From: Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Emiel Kollof <coolvibe@hackerheaven.org>, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, n0go013 <ttz@blahdeblah.demon.co.uk>, current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: [ GEOM tests ] disklabel warnings and vinum drives lost Message-ID: <20021004181950.A98440@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0210041723420.17529-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>; from julian@elischer.org on Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 05:26:07PM -0700 References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1021004201933.64999K-100000@fledge.watson.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0210041723420.17529-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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* De: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> [ Data: 2002-10-04 ] [ Subjecte: Re: [ GEOM tests ] disklabel warnings and vinum drives lost ] > > > On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Robert Watson wrote: > > > On the general topic of access to devices before a root has been found, > > Maxime Henrion <mux@FreeBSD.org> has done some interesting work on > > 'rootfs', a pseudofs used to bootstrap support for devfs, etc. In such an > > environment, Vinum and other consumers of devices would be able to rely on > > devfs access prior to the "real root" mount process. I'm not sure which > > pivotroot-like trick he's using, or whether he's doing the union thing to > > do the root re-mount. Presumably he has to be careful not to deadfs the > > devfs nodes in place before the real root turns up, etc. > > The original devfs supported access from within the kernel before > mounting root and devfs.. > It's not rocket science. A rootfs has many other ideal uses. Like spinning bits of the kernel off to userland, and having procfs exist, too. -- Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> | FreeBSD: The Power To Serve Will break world for fulltime employment. | finger jmallett@FreeBSD.org http://people.FreeBSD.org/~jmallett/ | Support my FreeBSD hacking! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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