On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Jason Thorpe wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Jul 1999 18:57:50 -0700 (PDT) 
>  Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov> wrote:
>  > I think you'll need some opt files. These files control their behavior
>  > based on kernel compile options, which we're now going controlling with
>  > generated headders (so you can compile kernel options, the files change,
>  > and the depend code in make regens the right files).
> 
> Why do you need to use the actual FFS code?  If this is for a boot
> program, use the FFS reading package in libsa.
> 
> You could certainly also add simple write support to the libsa FFS
> package.  I mean, it's not like you have to interact with the buffer
> cache, deal with the vnode layer, etc. in a boot block :-)

We'd also have to add the ability to create files, which is the problem
with libsa.

Take care,

Bill