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Subject: Re: mdconfig config file (was: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERI
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To: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
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On  1 Feb, Dima Dorfman wrote:
= [cvs-(all|commiters) -> -hackers]
= 
= > >> If anybody writes a patch to mdconfig to DTRT based on some
= > >> less bogus /etc/fstab entries, I'll happily review and commit it.

I, personally, liked the mount_mfs interface. Could it get redone to use
md? Although the memory disks are a separate animal, of course, and
don't even have to have a file-system on them, necessarily.

= > >Does this sort of functionality really belong in mdconfig?
= > 
= > Not by definition, and I'm not religious about it.
= 
= Okay, any objections then to jhb's configuration file idea?  The idea
= is that mdconfig parses a file (md.conf or something) and sets up some
= memory disks accordingly, including optional disklabel/newfs stuff.

	-mi




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