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Date:      Fri, 24 May 2002 16:55:01 -0700
From:      Maxime Henrion <mux@freebsd.org>
To:        arch@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
Subject:   Re: a virtual fs to allow root mounting of any fs without special code
Message-ID:  <20020524235501.GH496@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020523233338.9A812380F@overcee.wemm.org>
References:  <20020522123610.GL496@elvis.mu.org> <20020523233338.9A812380F@overcee.wemm.org>

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Peter Wemm wrote:
> So, this is to replace the pre-mountroot bdevvp etc kludges that we have?

Exactly.

> How do we solve the problem with the root fs being mounted read only and
> not having a /dev directory? 

This patch doesn't address these problems.  I guess I'll have either to
fix MNT_UNION so that it's actually useful, or write yet another mount
flag to solve this problem.

Maxime

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