From owner-freebsd-current Fri May 25 4: 6:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-25.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6718937B422 for ; Fri, 25 May 2001 04:06:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E01F166C66; Fri, 25 May 2001 04:06:54 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 04:06:54 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Dima Dorfman Cc: Kris Kennaway , Mikhail Teterin , current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: mount_mfs (Re: smbfs) Message-ID: <20010525040654.B1529@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20010524195633.A39799@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010525033642.726F73E2F@bazooka.unixfreak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="5/uDoXvLw7AC5HRs" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010525033642.726F73E2F@bazooka.unixfreak.org>; from dima@unixfreak.org on Thu, May 24, 2001 at 08:36:42PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --5/uDoXvLw7AC5HRs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 08:36:42PM -0700, Dima Dorfman wrote: > Sheldon Hearn posted a patch to add such a knob around January when we > were having this exact discussion. Personally, I think it only solves > half a problem; what if you want /tmp and /tmp2? And why should it be > limited to boot-up? Perhaps there's use for a program which emulates > mount_mfs using md. >=20 > I actually wrote a short program that emulates *all* of mount_mfs's > umpteen options with md, disklabel, and newfs, but nobody seemed > interested. My choice of name (mount_md) wasn't particuarly good, > either. Look at the -hackers and cvs-all archives around late January > and early February for the discussions. I still have that program, > and it works great, so perhaps I should make it a port (comments?). Just fix it, please :-) Preserving backwards compatibility is rarely a bad thing. Kris --5/uDoXvLw7AC5HRs Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.5 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7DjzNWry0BWjoQKURAsINAKDpb/9a+y5+sdgFDhKYmZJM3Rkb2QCg7lLM fh14jQCIl1YPHXTaQsA4D+4= =+d54 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --5/uDoXvLw7AC5HRs-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message