In message <4188DADD.4020907_at_daveg.ca>, David Gilbert writes: >Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >>In message <41887A33.2060608_at_dclg.ca>, David Gilbert writes: >> >> >>>Well... the recoverdisk is a cool tool. I can see it coming in handy >>>many times. While there isn't much documentation, I've tended to use it >>>by creating a vnode md disk of exactly the right size to recover the >>>partition in question. >>> >>> >> >>You could just have used a regular file for it and connected it to a >>md later on. >> >> >It won't create the file by itself. I created the md disk because I >didn't take the time to read the code, I suppose. It would make people >"feel" better if it created the target file when it didn't exist. I would be really happy to see somebody improve on my little hack, there are many things that could be improved about it, and if they were, it would be a good addition to src/sbin -- 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 Wed Nov 03 2004 - 12:30:36 UTC
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