From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 7 1: 0:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (dhcp45-21.dis.org [216.240.45.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96E6B37B402; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 01:00:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g2790Ha04392; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 01:00:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200203070900.g2790Ha04392@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Maxim Sobolev Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, audit@FreeBSD.org, re@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Extending loader(8) for loading kerels/modules split across several disks In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 05 Mar 2002 12:00:45 +0200." <3C84974D.37F683BD@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 01:00:17 -0800 From: Michael Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Please review attached patch, which adds long overdue feature to our > loader(8), allowing it to load sequence of files as a single object. I don't like this. I would much rather see support for 'split' files implemented as a stacking filesystem layer like the gzip support, with the simple recognition of 'foo.gz.aa' as the first part of a split version of 'foo.gz', which in turn is recognised as a compressed version of 'foo'. Making all these changes to parts of the loader that should never know about split files is a bad idea; please don't do it. The "right" approach will be easier and cleaner. Regards, Mike -- To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. - Theodore Roosevelt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message