From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 4 18:19:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 931) id D651037B401; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 18:19:50 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 18:19:50 -0700 From: Juli Mallett To: Julian Elischer Cc: Robert Watson , Terry Lambert , Emiel Kollof , Peter Wemm , Poul-Henning Kamp , n0go013 , current Subject: Re: [ GEOM tests ] disklabel warnings and vinum drives lost Message-ID: <20021004181950.A98440@FreeBSD.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from julian@elischer.org on Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 05:26:07PM -0700 Organisation: The FreeBSD Project X-Alternate-Addresses: , , , , X-Towel: Yes X-LiveJournal: flata, jmallett X-Negacore: Yes Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * De: Julian Elischer [ 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 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 | 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