From owner-cvs-all Sun Jul 14 9:50:19 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88F2737B409 for ; Sun, 14 Jul 2002 09:50:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay.pair.com (relay1.pair.com [209.68.1.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4E5D943E65 for ; Sun, 14 Jul 2002 09:50:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mp@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 53668 invoked from network); 14 Jul 2002 16:50:11 -0000 Received: from 12-236-91-101.client.attbi.com (HELO ?10.1.1.73?) (12.236.91.101) by relay1.pair.com with SMTP; 14 Jul 2002 16:50:11 -0000 X-pair-Authenticated: 12.236.91.101 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: (Unverified) Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20020714093834.E74633@iguana.icir.org> References: <200207141209.g6EC9XBL099971@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020714093834.E74633@iguana.icir.org> Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 09:50:05 -0700 To: Luigi Rizzo From: Mark Peek Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/picobsd/build write_mfs_in_kernel.c Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 9:38 AM -0700 7/14/02, Luigi Rizzo wrote: >i guess that those in need (assuming they exist) will find out and >complain and possibly we will move this code to a more appropriate >place. Where, i just have no idea. Well, I guess you could say that I complained. I'll send a request to the cvsmeisters for a repo copy to (yet) another location. >In any case the dd hack is as much of a hack as the one in >write_mfs_in_kernel.c, and it is not bad at all: > > set `strings -at d kernel | grep "MFS Filesystem goes here"` > mfs_ofs=$(($1 + 8192)) > dd if=${c_fs} ibs=8192 iseek=1 of=kernel obs=${mfs_ofs} \ > oseek=1 conv=notrunc Well, write_mfs_in_kernel does a bit more error checking to ensure the user isn't shooting themselves in the foot. Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message