From owner-cvs-all Mon Feb 3 12:34:48 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 4940137B401; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 12:34:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns2.gnf.org (ns2.gnf.org [63.196.132.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CFFC43F43; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 12:34:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gtetlow@gnf.org) Received: from EXCHCLUSTER01.lj.gnf.org (exch01.lj.gnf.org [172.25.10.19]) by ns2.gnf.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h13KYftk077054; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 12:34:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gtetlow@gnf.org) Received: from roark.gnf.org ([172.25.24.15]) by EXCHCLUSTER01.lj.gnf.org with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5329); Mon, 3 Feb 2003 12:34:43 -0800 Received: from roark.gnf.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by roark.gnf.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h13KYhGj061660; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 12:34:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gtetlow@gnf.org) Received: (from gtetlow@localhost) by roark.gnf.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h13KYhK1061659; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 12:34:43 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 12:34:43 -0800 From: Gordon Tetlow To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: phk@freebsd.org, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/geom geom_vol_ffs.c Message-ID: <20030203203443.GH98559@roark.gnf.org> References: <11633.1044300113@critter.freebsd.dk> <20030203202355.GF98559@roark.gnf.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="K1n7F7fSdjvFAEnM" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-OriginalArrivalTime: 03 Feb 2003 20:34:43.0897 (UTC) FILETIME=[AF3E9290:01C2CBC3] 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 --K1n7F7fSdjvFAEnM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 09:29:16PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > 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 wa= s a > > symlink? >=20 > 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) Right, but I'm wondering if there is difference because I'm thinking in terms of a root mount, not just a regular mount. phk could probably say more about that. -gordon --K1n7F7fSdjvFAEnM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+PtJjRu2t9DV9ZfsRAremAKCOwpbLAcwNvE7tpN4bafThGJoJSQCcDmCk o9x5YVqBkXeulVlfJlwz4Ho= =uZ4h -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --K1n7F7fSdjvFAEnM-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message