Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 14:21:16 +0200 From: Thomas Quinot <thomas@FreeBSD.ORG> To: current@freebsd.org, audit@freebsd.org, phk@freebsd.org, pb@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mounting root through devfs Message-ID: <20040503122116.GA47228@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <20040501223031.GA10624@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org> References: <20040501223031.GA10624@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org>
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* Thomas Quinot, 2004-05-02 :
> An interesting use of this option is to mount a root file system by
> FFS volume label (using GEOM_VOL), without needing to know what hardware
> identifier will be assigned to it.
Hum, actually, further testing revealed that this should have worked
with -CURRENT without resorting to any patch. I must have messed up
something when initially determining that this did not work.
> If I understand the comment just above the definition of g_dev_clone,
> integration of this patch would allow removal of a questionable hack.
The patch could still be an improvement from an architectural
perspective for this reason.
Thomas.
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