Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 14:34:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: des@ofug.org (Dag-Erling Smorgrav), mbendiks@eunet.no (Marius Bendiksen), arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ideas concerning fsck Message-ID: <200010241435.HAA28287@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <19690.972397162@critter> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Oct 24, 2000 04:19:22 PM
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> The idea I have been toying with is to mount DEVFS as / and mount > the "real" root on top of it with a unionmount. > > Amongst the things this would allow is a kind of "persistence" for > /dev (should anybody still want that) and various trickery like > mirror/raid initializations could be performed from userland > before mounting the "real" root. Yes, this is absolutely the right way to do this. Another simplification is to mount into the mounted FS list, and then map into the namespace, as a seperate, second step. This would permit all of the mount point covering code to be moved to higher level common code in the mount system call. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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