Re: enable MFS for RAMDISK_CD on amd64

2011-05-10 Thread Daniel C. Sinclair
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Stuart Henderson s...@spacehopper.org wrote: Why? One situation that it would be useful is netbooting and using /sbin/restore to rebuild filesystems over the network. restore needs to write temporary data to /tmp but the ramdisks don't have enough space. It

Re: enable MFS for RAMDISK_CD on amd64

2011-05-10 Thread Brett Lymn
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 07:07:43PM -0700, Daniel C. Sinclair wrote: One situation that it would be useful is netbooting and using /sbin/restore to rebuild filesystems over the network. restore needs to write temporary data to /tmp but the ramdisks don't have enough space. It would be handy

enable MFS for RAMDISK_CD on amd64

2011-05-09 Thread Ted Roby
This patch enables MFS in RAMDISK_CD, adds the MFS flag to distrib/special/newfs binary and creates the sbin/mount_mfs link for instbin. ted dot roby at gmail dot com Index: distrib/amd64/common/list === RCS file:

Re: enable MFS for RAMDISK_CD on amd64

2011-05-09 Thread Stuart Henderson
Why? On 2011-05-09, Ted Roby ted.r...@gmail.com wrote: This patch enables MFS in RAMDISK_CD, adds the MFS flag to distrib/special/newfs binary and creates the sbin/mount_mfs link for instbin. ted dot roby at gmail dot com Index: distrib/amd64/common/list

Re: enable MFS for RAMDISK_CD on amd64

2011-05-09 Thread Kenneth R Westerback
On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 08:49:17PM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: Why? Whyt?++ Ken On 2011-05-09, Ted Roby ted.r...@gmail.com wrote: This patch enables MFS in RAMDISK_CD, adds the MFS flag to distrib/special/newfs binary and creates the sbin/mount_mfs link for instbin. ted

Re: enable MFS for RAMDISK_CD on amd64

2011-05-09 Thread Ted Roby
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Stuart Henderson s...@spacehopper.org wrote: Why? I posted it to misc for general archival. When creating diskless systems that do not use pxeboot, I use mfs mount points to construct userland in memory from a bsd.rd kernel. I can do this with a modified rdroot