Re: [PATCH] FreeBSD 64-bit kernel support

[Chip Panarchy]

Hi

Great news!

Thanks for your reply!

Can't wait for PHcoder to finish his work!

Panarchy

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 5:17 AM, Joey Korkames <address@hidden> wrote:
>> What's the advantage of booting with an mfsroot?
>
> You can make a minimal fbsd system in the mfsroot that is smart enough to
> "init_chroot" from a SMB/NFS netmount, or from a cloop file stored a CD or
> http-sever (cached to a tmpfs (ramdisk)). Mine also unionfs-mounts a tmpfs
> to what ever root that is used so you can make changes in ram and not on the
> source root mount.
>
> This is also what Frenzy does - http://frenzy.org.ua/eng/
>
> I don't know if HeX unionfs-mounts or not -
> http://www.rawpacket.org/projects/hex
>
>>
>> Also, will it be advantageous to me?
>>
>
> I find it useful for executing FreeBSD rescues and where I need to pkg_add
> tools that are not already on the rootfs.
>
>> (FreeBSD installations contained within a UFS, UFS2 &/or ZFS logical
>> partition)
>>
>
> I didn't think of it at first, but the mfsroot could also have all the
> smarts contained in it for mounting and init_chroot'ing a ZFS root.
>
> You still have to load grub and the kernel/mfsroot from a grub-supported fs,
> but I was very pleased to hear that phcoder is working on that!
>
> -joey
>
>
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