Re: [ GEOM tests ] disklabel warnings and vinum drives lost

[Julian Elischer]

On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Robert Watson wrote:

> On the general topic of access to devices before a root has been found,
> Maxime Henrion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has done some interesting work on
> 'rootfs', a pseudofs used to bootstrap support for devfs, etc.  In such an
> environment, Vinum and other consumers of devices would be able to rely on
> devfs access prior to the "real root" mount process.  I'm not sure which
> pivotroot-like trick he's using, or whether he's doing the union thing to
> do the root re-mount.  Presumably he has to be careful not to deadfs the
> devfs nodes in place before the real root turns up, etc. 

The original devfs supported access from within the kernel before
mounting root and devfs..
It's not rocket science.



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