Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 01:33:02 +0100 From: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie> To: Maxime Henrion <mux@freebsd.org> Cc: arch@freebsd.org, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Subject: Re: a virtual fs to allow root mounting of any fs without special code Message-ID: <200205220133.aa58608@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 21 May 2002 15:57:14 PDT." <20020521225713.GJ496@elvis.mu.org>
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In message <20020521225713.GJ496@elvis.mu.org>, Maxime Henrion writes: >There is however one thing I could do to simplify rootfs even more, >which is before mounting the real fs on /, do a lookup for /dev, retain >the vnode, then mount the real fs normally on /, and call dounmount() to >unmount the devfs under it after this. This could reduce rootfs to a >2-vnodes filesystem but I didn't test it yet. Of course, one further simplification would be to do away with rootfs entirely; mount devfs on /, create a "dev -> ." symlink within devfs, mount the real root, and then unmount the underlying devfs :-) Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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