From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Oct 24 5:45:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from erouter0.it-datacntr.louisville.edu (erouter0.it-datacntr.louisville.edu [136.165.1.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F12037B479 for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 05:45:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from osaka.louisville.edu (osaka.louisville.edu [136.165.1.114]) by erouter0.it-datacntr.louisville.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F618251A2; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 08:45:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: by osaka.louisville.edu (Postfix, from userid 15) id 12E511861D; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 08:45:10 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 08:45:09 -0400 From: Keith Stevenson To: Marius Bendiksen Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ideas concerning fsck Message-ID: <20001024084509.B10509@osaka.louisville.edu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from mbendiks@eunet.no on Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 12:45:35PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 12:45:35PM +0200, Marius Bendiksen wrote: > > We can get around the need for fstab by using the bootfs idea that AIX and > others use (Poul-Henning has suggested this also in connection with DEVFS) > to get less magic in the boot sequence. AIX does use fstab. IBM just cleverly renamed it "/etc/filesystems" and completely changed the format. This file is consulted as part of the boot process. The bootfs idea is pretty neat. I would like to see it implemented in FreeBSD, especially if it would make vinum disks usable for the / filesystem. Regards, --Keith Stevenson-- -- Keith Stevenson System Programmer - Data Center Services - University of Louisville keith.stevenson@louisville.edu GPG key fingerprint = 332D 97F0 6321 F00F 8EE7 2D44 00D8 F384 75BB 89AE To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message