In message <9987.1074635471_at_critter.freebsd.dk>, "Poul-Henning Kamp" writes: >In message <20040120214533.GC11747_at_Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>, Brooks Davis writes: > >>> P.S. Hmmm... It looks like it would be easy for >>> libarchive to also read mtree files. Then >>> bsdtar's built-in features for converting archive formats >>> on-the-fly might be useful here. Hmmm.... >> >>This would deal with my concerns about making all the directories. This >>would yeild a reasionable, single stage method of creating source files >>for populating directories without requiring mtree. I like this idea. > >Considering that we are talking about a checked in mtree file, it would >be a lot simpler to have a tool convert it to a shellscript and run that >from /etc/rc.* > >Either way, my patch is clearly not way out of line and will not be s/not// sorry. >committed and I doubt I will ever get it reworked, but I still urge >the RC-team to keep 'single read-only filesystem' configs in mind, >we have a lot of the code in the diskless case, it should just be >available also for people booting CF-cards in embedded boxes, CDroms >with "live systems" etc. > >-- >Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 >phk_at_FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 >FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe >Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org" > -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk_at_FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.Received on Tue Jan 20 2004 - 12:54:28 UTC
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