Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 16:33:50 +0100 From: Michal Mertl <mime@traveller.cz> To: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: enhacement to mdmfs Message-ID: <41AC92DE.8080402@traveller.cz> In-Reply-To: <20041130120856.GA44543@ei.bzerk.org> References: <41AC57BF.6060604@traveller.cz> <20041130120856.GA44543@ei.bzerk.org>
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Ruben de Groot wrote: > On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 12:21:35PM +0100, Michal Mertl typed: > >>Hello, >> >>I've recently shot my foot with mdmfs. Of course it was a pilot error but >>the funcioanility I was looking for might be usefull. >> >>I want to mount vnode-backed md(4) on boot without formatting it (e.g. for >>a jail). Is it possible with current boot scripts? >> >>I wrote a simple patch to mdmfs so such md disk can be put in /etc/fstab. >>It adds '-K' option do mdmfs(8) to Keep contents. The line to attach such >>disk in fstab looks like this: >> >>md /jail mfs rw,-K,-F=/var/jailfile 0 0 >> >>Comments welcome. If people find it usefull I'd like to have it commited. I >>can fill the PR with enhancement request. > > > I filed a PR about this allready in October 2003: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=57641 > > Ruben > Indeed. The patch is almost the same. Last update is from today stating it will be commited. Hurray. -- Michal
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