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Date:      Mon, 3 Feb 2003 12:34:43 -0800
From:      Gordon Tetlow <gordont@gnf.org>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        phk@freebsd.org, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/geom geom_vol_ffs.c
Message-ID:  <20030203203443.GH98559@roark.gnf.org>
In-Reply-To: <xzp3cn56rc3.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
References:  <11633.1044300113@critter.freebsd.dk> <xzphebl6t4p.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20030203202355.GF98559@roark.gnf.org> <xzp3cn56rc3.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 09:29:16PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Gordon Tetlow <gordont@gnf.org> writes:
> > On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 08:50:30PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> > >  - I would be very happy if the device nodes in /dev/vol/ were
> > >    actually symlinks to the underlying device - provided that's
> > >    possible without introducing major ugliness into the code.
> > Would you then be able to mount your root device from /dev/vol if it wa=
s a
> > symlink?
>=20
> root@des /dev# ln -s ad1d foo
> root@des /dev# ll foo
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  3 Feb  3 21:28 foo@ -> ad1d
> root@des /dev# mount -t ufs /dev/foo /mnt
> root@des /dev# mount | grep mnt
> /dev/foo on /mnt (ufs, local, soft-updates)

Right, but I'm wondering if there is difference because I'm thinking in
terms of a root mount, not just a regular mount. phk could probably say
more about that.

-gordon

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