On 08/14/2013 14:05, Simon J. Gerraty wrote: > On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 08:10:41 -0500, Eric van Gyzen writes: >> NetBSD's makefs has a -Z flag to create the image as a sparse file. In >> FreeBSD, the flag is spelled -p. Is there a reason for using a >> different flag? > No, the -p should have been dropped before we committed to FreeBSD. > But it is there, and Glen expressed a desire to leave it working. > > I expect you could drop -p from the man page and usage message. > Ie. just document -Z, but leave -p active, and no harm should > result.
Thank you, Simon. Later in this thread, I included a patch for 9.x to do essentially that, and a patch for head to use only -Z and remove -p entirely (since it was never in a release). I think I'm just waiting for someone to commit them, since I don't have a commit bit. Cheers, Eric _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
