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Date:      Sun, 27 May 2001 22:45:54 -0300
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To:        Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com>
Cc:        dima@unixfreak.org, kris@obsecurity.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mount_mfs (Re: smbfs)
Message-ID:  <3B11ADD2.573225F8@newsguy.com>
References:  <200105251334.f4PDYJB40172@aldan.algebra.com>

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Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> 
> > I actually  wrote a short  program that emulates *all*  of mount_mfs's
> > umpteen  options with  md,  disklabel, and  newfs,  but nobody  seemed
> > interested.  My choice  of  name (mount_md)  wasn't particuarly  good,
> > either. Look at the -hackers  and cvs-all archives around late January
> > and early February for the discussions. I still have that program, and
> > it works great, so perhaps I should make it a port (comments?).
> 
> Why can't that program _replace_ mount_mfs? And assume the name too?

Because md isn't a filesystem. A much better solution would be create a
program that reads an /etc/md.conf, in which size, fs, mount point and
whatever are listed, and call mount on all that stuff.

-- 
Daniel C. Sobral			(8-DCS)
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dcs@freebsd.org
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