On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 08:36:42PM -0700, Dima Dorfman wrote:
> Sheldon Hearn posted a patch to add such a knob around January when we
> were having this exact discussion. Personally, I think it only solves
> half a problem; what if you want /tmp and /tmp2? And why should it be
> limited to boot-up? Perhaps there's use for a program which emulates
> mount_mfs using md.
>
> I actually wrote a short program that emulates *all* of mount_mfs's
> umpteen options with md, disklabel, and newfs, but nobody seemed
> interested. My choice of name (mount_md) wasn't particuarly good,
> either. Look at the -hackers and cvs-all archives around late January
> and early February for the discussions. I still have that program,
> and it works great, so perhaps I should make it a port (comments?).
Just fix it, please :-) Preserving backwards compatibility is rarely a
bad thing.
Kris
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