Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:55:27 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Tapan Chaudhari <tapan.list@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Can I change the device of the "/" mount point at boot time. Message-ID: <200807181055.41216.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <482257ad0807160031k34980a19na9895f38f125d4e0@mail.gmail.com> References: <482257ad0807141106m679ec19frd853339637d27a2d@mail.gmail.com> <200807151538.38285.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <482257ad0807160031k34980a19na9895f38f125d4e0@mail.gmail.com>
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--nextPart2229487.Isn8Q43yRk Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Tapan Chaudhari wrote: > > My first question would be "Why do you want to do that?" > > I am planning to write a block level snapshot driver. OK. You might want to look at geom_journal I guess. > > I think you'd have a lower overhead and much less hassle writing a > > GEOM class and using that. > > This sounds good. I will try using GEOM first. But if I could achieve > interception, as I described earlier, I will go for that rather than > redirection. I think using GEOM is the "Right Way" in FreeBSD for this. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart2229487.Isn8Q43yRk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.8 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBIf/EV5ZPcIHs/zowRAkh5AJ0VEbRza3nE4+0AIUtQgTGzUjQd+wCeK26M 2CNItAFjYkOZDABd2/uPqVw= =YcPl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2229487.Isn8Q43yRk--
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