From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 23 00:05:45 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A458A16A4CE for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 00:05:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailout2.pacific.net.au (mailout2.pacific.net.au [61.8.0.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D82CC43D45 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 00:05:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bde@zeta.org.au) Received: from mailproxy2.pacific.net.au (mailproxy2.pacific.net.au [61.8.0.87])i2N85g5v012969; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 19:05:42 +1100 Received: from gamplex.bde.org (katana.zip.com.au [61.8.7.246]) i2N85fsg029176; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 19:05:41 +1100 Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 19:05:40 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-X-Sender: bde@gamplex.bde.org To: Luigi Rizzo In-Reply-To: <20040322174509.A28739@xorpc.icir.org> Message-ID: <20040323171455.B17149@gamplex.bde.org> References: <20040322174509.A28739@xorpc.icir.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: userland|unprivileged file system handling tools X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 08:05:45 -0000 On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > + is there interest in having makefs become part of the > standard system, instead of a port ? Not from me. > + how hard would it be to teach disklabel and fsck to > work on files (filesystem images) as well as devices ? This is as easy as upgrading to RELENG_4 to avoid some breakages. fsck still works, but device independence of newfs and disklabel has been broken. This is easy to fix for newfs, and disklabel shouldn't be needed unless the image contains more than 1 partition. Bruce