Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 01:34:24 +0300 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> To: Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Clifton Royston <cliftonr@lava.net> Subject: Re: Locking a file backed mdconfig into memory Message-ID: <4C0044F0.5060807@icyb.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <20100528215837.GA86689@icarus.home.lan> References: <201005272348.o4RNmgWh014243@hugeraid.jetcafe.org> <20100528043006.GA18560@lava.net> <201005281757.o4SHvTwq020905@hugeraid.jetcafe.org> <20100528191828.GA83371@icarus.home.lan> <201005281926.o4SJQCW3041849@hugeraid.jetcafe.org> <20100528215837.GA86689@icarus.home.lan>
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on 29/05/2010 00:58 Jeremy Chadwick said the following: > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 12:26:12PM -0700, Dave Hayes wrote: >> Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> writes: >>> And I think you meant this for variable names, in addition to what >>> vfs.root.mountfrom should be (specific to RELENG_8): >>> mfsroot_load="YES" >>> mfsroot_type="mfs_root" >>> mfsroot_name="/some/path/mfsroot" >> I'm using RELENG_7, but it seems rootfs_* works just like mfsroot_* ... >> is the former deprecated? > > I spent a small bit of time looking through both RELENG_7 and RELENG_8 > source (/usr/src) as well as /boot (for the Forth portion) and I was > unable to find any reference to "rootfs" aside from actual variable > names (not loader variables) in C code or include files. None were > strings. There's a strong possibility I'm not looking the right way > (grep -ri ...). > > I can assure you that mfsroot_xxx works on both platforms because I > wrote the below documentation: Guys, you could have used "donotboot_" prefix there and it would still work :-) _type, _name and _load suffixes are what is important in this particular case. See description of these suffixes in loader.conf(5). -- Andriy Gapon
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