Subject: Re: mfs on netbsd
To: Srinivasa Kanduru <ksraghavan@yahoo.com>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/05/2004 11:48:58
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On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 05:02:52PM -0800, Srinivasa Kanduru wrote:
>=20
> --- Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org> wrote:
>=20
> > On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 05:58:28PM -0800, Srinivasa Kanduru wrote:
> > While the patches you gave are nice, you didn't actually describe what
> > issues you encountered. As such, we can't evaluate the fixes you offer.
>=20
> I piggy-backed the filesystem after kernel and when it was time to load i=
nit,
> the
>  kernel wasn't able to locate init in the filesystem.
>=20
> I think lookup succeeded as rootdir was set correctly for the process, bu=
t when
> it came
> to load init, vn_rdwr couldn't really pass on the request to mfs strategy.

Why not just use mdsetimage to inject the file system, and do what we do=20
for instal media?

Take care,

Bill

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