Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 22:33:02 -0700 From: Doug Barton <DougB@DougBarton.net> To: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: vn/md/mfs and 5.0-release Message-ID: <3B1DC08E.3AAFEAD0@DougBarton.net> References: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0106051431120.2880-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
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Jan Grant wrote:
>
> If mfs is going the way of the dodo, I'd like to know how much work is
> going to be required to track stable across (say) the 5.0-release point.
>
> For instance, with a couple of lines in /etc/fstab
>
> /dev/ad0s4b none swap sw 0 0
> /dev/ad0s4b /tmp mfs rw,nosuid,nodev,nosymfollow 0 0
>
> I get a temporary swap-backed /tmp FS* recreated on boot.
>
> What is the new route to duplicate this kind of behaviour with
> md/vn-backed file systems?
At very least there will be a script to create a ufs filesystem on an md;
and a knob in rc.conf to hook it up. It's still not decided whether we will
make this change transparent via the fstab mechanism or not.
Doug
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