On Friday, 4 October 2002 at 16:03:24 -0700, Peter Wemm wrote: > Terry Lambert wrote: >> Emiel Kollof wrote: >>> * Peter Wemm ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >>>> vinum is so much unbelievable stuff in it. Consider this stuff: >>>> >>>> sys/dev/vinum/vinumio.c: >> >> [ ... ] >> >>>> This crud has *got* to be taken out and shot, then reworked to do it >>>> properly. >>> >>> Amen! (and no, I'm not volunteering. I don't mind cleaning up code, but the > re >>> are limits to what crud I touch) >> >> >> FWIW: >> >> The comment right before that code is: >> >> /* >> * Yes, Bruce, I know this is horrible, but we >> * don't have a root file system when we first >> * try to do this. If you can come up with a >> * better solution, I'd really like it. I'm >> * just putting it in now to add ammuntion to >> * moving the system to devfs. >> */ >> >> ...basically, when devfs became default, the person who made it >> default did not maintain this code, when they converted everything >> else over to using it. >> >> The assumption here is that the devfs will be available to the >> system before the root is mounted transparently over it. > > Actually no, this is only used *after* root is mounted.
Now. Vinum supported the root file system years ago, but there were objections to the code. This was a temporary hack which was supposed to go away quickly, but then there was some pressure for me to give up maintainership, so I did, and Vinum has had very little maintenance since. >> Another alternative is to disable support for mounting vinum plexes >> as the root filesystem, which is what this code supposedly >> supports. > > Nope. Vinum doesn't support booting with a plex as a root file > system. I can't quite say that I understand what this is for though. > namei() etc are perfectly usable at this point. It did. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
