[thread hijacked from freebsd-security@ and landed in stable@ ] On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 11:16:34 -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> While a 4.12 will PROBABLY not happen, I do plan on continued MFCs of > important > changes to RELENG_4 as I do not envision my custommers moving to 5.x > until some > time in 2006 at the earliest. (Including fixes from dragonfly, and > possibly some new drivers > and thing like USB fixes. Thanks, Julian, and I'd like to contemplate getting a few of my MFC hacks that I'm running on 4.x, added to releng, if possible. One of these things I've found very handy is the `mount' option introduced in 5.x that allows one to specify with -F an alternate to /etc/fstab to be used. This I use for conditional mounting of devices which may or may not be present, like external USB (to catch your interest, heh) drives with a complicated partition layout. I test if a known drive is present at a certain device, and if so, `mount -F /etc/fstab-da0' or `-da1' and so on, as part of my boot. In order to adopt this change, I had to add to libc in 4.x as well as butcher the `mount' code. Does such a change stand a chance of being added to 4.x, or are infrastructure changes required this way, like to libc, off-limits outside my own hive of personal hackery? (What's missing, as far as I know, that could be handy, is a comparable option to `umount' when one wants to quickly detach a drive with ten mounted filesystems. I haven't looked at this idea) (freebsd-legacy@ , anyone, for those of us too stubborn to join the modern world, and get confused when the -stable list postings don't make clear what release is being discussed, or want a quiet place to mull over 2.2.x ?) thanks barry bouwsma _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
