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Date:      Mon, 19 Oct 1998 07:41:00 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        andyf@speednet.com.au, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mount flags
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810190736511.348-100000@picnic.mat.net>
In-Reply-To: <199810190541.PAA22459@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Bruce Evans wrote:

> >> A real short history on what's changed in
> >> regards to this would be a nice thing to stick in the mail archives.
> 
> 1. (Integer) type numbers for file systems are broken as designed.
> 2. Use of them was mostly fixed in 4.4BSD-Lite2 (May 1995).
> 3. FreeBSD is taking a long time to complete the Lite2 merge.  Some
>    mileposts according to sys/mount.h:
>    1.1.1.2 1996/03/11  Import on vendor branch.
>    1.36    1997/02/10  Merge (kernel only, 90% only).
>    1.67    1998/09/07  Merge removal of MOUNT* definitions for type numbers.
>    1.68    1998/10/15  Tag for first release with Lite2 changes in it.

In looking around at how other Unixes are doing this, I notice that many
have their statfs stuff in a different file than mount.h ... I think in
sys/statvfs.h.  Is there some URL where I can go hunt around at how
4.4BSDLite2 is doing it, and see if we're going that direction?


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