From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 22 2:13:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B65D37B401 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 02:13:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailhost.stack.nl (vaak.stack.nl [131.155.140.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4738B43E42 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 02:13:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcolz@stack.nl) Received: from toad.stack.nl (toad.stack.nl [2001:610:1108:5010:202:b3ff:fe17:9e1a]) by mailhost.stack.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E10A7A3015; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 11:13:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: by toad.stack.nl (Postfix, from userid 333) id 7D11D9696; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 11:13:09 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 11:13:09 +0200 From: Marc Olzheim To: David Yeske Cc: Luigi Rizzo , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel + mfsroot article review Message-ID: <20021022091309.GA74895@stack.nl> References: <20021018161933.A85798@carp.icir.org> <20021018234201.4242.qmail@web13507.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021018234201.4242.qmail@web13507.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD toad.stack.nl 4.6-STABLE FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE X-URL: http://www.stack.nl/~marcolz/ Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 04:42:01PM -0700, David Yeske wrote: > MD_ROOT_SIZE is only needed for write_mfs_in_kernel. When write_mfs_in_kernel was removed the > code that used it was not though. I don't think it is still being used though. A couple of files > still reference it: src/sys/dev/md/md.c has ifdefs for it, src/release/Makefile still compiles it > on stable, src/sys/conf/options still defines it in opt_md.h, src/sys/i386/conf/LINT still has an > example... > > MFS_ROOT_SIZE seems to be even more stale. > > phk probably knows for sure though... I, for one, still use it to do remote net installs via dhcp/tftp. Works like a charm, together with write_mfs_in_kernel... Zlo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message