Re: support for mounting md(4) based filesystem at boot [PATCHES]

From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 14:37:20 +0200
In message <3EF1ABDF.8080605_at_earthmagic.org>, Johny Mattsson writes:
>Hi all,
>
>As promised a couple of days ago, here's the patch set to allow for 
>mounting of md(4) based filesystems at boot time:
>http://www.earthmagic.org/~lonewolf/FreeBSD/mdmount.tar.gz
>
>This archive contains a number of files, including four rc.d scripts, a 
>rc.conf diff, a couple of datafiles and some manpages for said data files.

I have not read you patch, and as such have no opinion on if it should
go into the tree or not, but I have some general comments to make
on this overall subject.

I think we need somebody to reconsider how we configure our filesystems
in the future, in order to avoid a confusion of config files whose
interrelationship users will have no chance of figuring out.

We have CCD, GBDE, MD and in the future likely other technologies for
configuring the underlying devices, we have FSCK, UFS and NFS and
other filesystems to mount.

Somebody must be able to come up with some creative stuff here... ?

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Received on Thu Jun 19 2003 - 03:37:25 UTC

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