Date: Tue, 02 Nov 1999 20:42:22 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za>, msmith@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GENERIC build broken Message-ID: <199911030442.UAA02095@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 Nov 1999 13:38:28 PST." <199911022138.NAA52917@apollo.backplane.com>
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> : .. Mike Smith writes .. > :I got dragged away yesterday before I could fix this properly; it > :actually requires a bit more finessing due to the way MFS creates a > :root-private instance of itself when it nominates itself as root. I > :don't want to commit a half-baked fix, so I'm going to ask for a little > :forbearance and fix it properly this evening. > > If you can actually fix the MFS hacks that have been put in over the > years to deal with root fs mounts a lot of people are going to be > *very* happy with you! It is certainly worth some temporary breakage. The current plan is to have a separate MFS_ROOT conditional sysinit that runs just before the root-mount sysinit. If this one finds an MFS, it'll take over the first spot in the "compatibility" roots list. This isn't quite as nice as I'd have liked, but I can't (yet) write to the kernel environment, so that's about the best I can do. > I am not happy at all with the rootfsid hacks I made a few months ago > but I didn't have time to do anything about it at the time and I had > to get BOOTP working again after someone left it broken for a couple > of weeks. Well, bootp in the kernel has to die too. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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