Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 22:51:11 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org> Subject: Re: REVIEW: cleanvar.patch Message-ID: <9987.1074635471@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 20 Jan 2004 13:45:33 PST." <20040120214533.GC11747@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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In message <20040120214533.GC11747@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>, Brooks Davis writes: >> P.S. Hmmm... It looks like it would be easy for >> libarchive to also read mtree files. Then >> bsdtar's built-in features for converting archive formats >> on-the-fly might be useful here. Hmmm.... > >This would deal with my concerns about making all the directories. This >would yeild a reasionable, single stage method of creating source files >for populating directories without requiring mtree. I like this idea. Considering that we are talking about a checked in mtree file, it would be a lot simpler to have a tool convert it to a shellscript and run that from /etc/rc.* Either way, my patch is clearly not way out of line and will not be committed and I doubt I will ever get it reworked, but I still urge the RC-team to keep 'single read-only filesystem' configs in mind, we have a lot of the code in the diskless case, it should just be available also for people booting CF-cards in embedded boxes, CDroms with "live systems" etc. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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