From owner-cvs-all Mon Feb 3 12:29:20 2003 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D4E037B401; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 12:29:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD35C43F3F; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 12:29:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id ABFD35371; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 21:29:16 +0100 (CET) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Gordon Tetlow Cc: phk@freebsd.org, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/geom geom_vol_ffs.c From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 21:29:16 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20030203202355.GF98559@roark.gnf.org> (Gordon Tetlow's message of "Mon, 3 Feb 2003 12:23:55 -0800") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090014 (Oort Gnus v0.14) Emacs/21.2 (i386--freebsd) References: <11633.1044300113@critter.freebsd.dk> <20030203202355.GF98559@roark.gnf.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gordon Tetlow writes: > On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 08:50:30PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > - I would be very happy if the device nodes in /dev/vol/ were > > actually symlinks to the underlying device - provided that's > > possible without introducing major ugliness into the code. > Would you then be able to mount your root device from /dev/vol if it was a > symlink? root@des /dev# ln -s ad1d foo root@des /dev# ll foo lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3 Feb 3 21:28 foo@ -> ad1d root@des /dev# mount -t ufs /dev/foo /mnt root@des /dev# mount | grep mnt /dev/foo on /mnt (ufs, local, soft-updates) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message