Date: Sun, 16 Jul 95 14:25:31 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FS root mount handling discrepancy Message-ID: <9507162025.AA14100@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <199507160633.QAA17212@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Jul 16, 95 04:33:55 pm
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> mfs_mountroot() and nfs_mountroot() call inittodr() too. Volatile and
^^^^^^^^^^^^
> readonly file systems won't have a useful timestamp to call it with.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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> I think it currently must be called even when the timestamp is 0. It
> doesn't get called except by mountroot routines.
Should a volatile or a readonly file system call it with (time_t)0 or
not call it at all? I thought "not call it at all".
If it's supposed to call it with 0, then cd9600_mountroot is currently
broken (I'll do the fix either way; don't worry about fixing it now)?
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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