From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Oct 24 5:57:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail-relay.eunet.no (mail-relay.eunet.no [193.71.71.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDF1E37B4C5 for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 05:57:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from login-1.eunet.no (login-1.eunet.no [193.75.110.2]) by mail-relay.eunet.no (8.9.3/8.9.3/GN) with ESMTP id OAA33021; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 14:57:16 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mbendiks@eunet.no) Received: from localhost (mbendiks@localhost) by login-1.eunet.no (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA45881; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 14:57:16 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mbendiks@eunet.no) X-Authentication-Warning: login-1.eunet.no: mbendiks owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 14:57:16 +0200 (CEST) From: Marius Bendiksen To: Keith Stevenson Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ideas concerning fsck In-Reply-To: <20001024084509.B10509@osaka.louisville.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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. I made no claim wrt that. The reference to "less magic in the boot sequence" was related to discovering the boot device and such. And it would be possible for us to remove the need to rely on the root filesystem being uncorrupt. > 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. I use this whenever I do vinum based solutions, by having a minimal root filesystem as a memory filesystem, then starting vinum to be able to bring up the real root filesystem. Marius To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message