Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libstand ext2fs

2000-05-02 Thread Mike Bristow
On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 09:08:02PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: What sort of fallback behaviour would you want in case of error here? Just let chroot() either succeed or fail. It's own "fallback behavior" in such a case should prove adequate. :) Hmm. Failure to chroot == failure to

Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libstand ext2fs

2000-05-01 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
wishlist Not sure if this is a silly question or not, but could the kernel somehow view a specific dir on a ext2fs disk as the freebsd root and boot a freebsd system from it? Also being able to access the stuff below the I think there's a more general need to have a loader variable which

Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libstand ext2fs

2000-05-01 Thread Mike Smith
wishlist Not sure if this is a silly question or not, but could the kernel somehow view a specific dir on a ext2fs disk as the freebsd root and boot a freebsd system from it? Also being able to access the stuff below the I think there's a more general need to have a loader variable

Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libstand ext2fs

2000-05-01 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
What sort of fallback behaviour would you want in case of error here? Just let chroot() either succeed or fail. It's own "fallback behavior" in such a case should prove adequate. :) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of

Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libstand ext2fs

2000-05-01 Thread Mike Smith
What sort of fallback behaviour would you want in case of error here? Just let chroot() either succeed or fail. It's own "fallback behavior" in such a case should prove adequate. :) Hmm. Failure to chroot == failure to start init? -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day.

Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libstand ext2fs

2000-04-30 Thread Martin Cracauer
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Adam wrote: On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Jonathan Lemon wrote: On Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 11:15:47AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: On Saturday, 29 April 2000 at 13:44:08 -0700, Jonathan Lemon wrote: jlemon 2000/04/29 13:44:08 PDT Added files: lib/libstand

Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libstand ext2fs

2000-04-29 Thread Adam
On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Jonathan Lemon wrote: On Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 11:15:47AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: On Saturday, 29 April 2000 at 13:44:08 -0700, Jonathan Lemon wrote: jlemon 2000/04/29 13:44:08 PDT Added files: lib/libstand ext2fs.c Log: Add ext2fs support