Subject: Re: newfs/newlfs/newfs_msdos (was Re: Some LFS troubles)
To: Konrad Schroder <perseant@hhhh.org>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/11/1999 11:44:47
On Thu, 11 Mar 1999 11:44:43 -0800 (PST)
Konrad Schroder <perseant@hhhh.org> wrote:
> It counds good to me; my only concern would be that the fact that
> newfs_ffs is currently called `newfs' didn't cause any problems; since
> there are a lot more of them than options to mount(8). Does the new
> newfs just pass on all its options besides fs-type to newfs_xxx, or do the
> options to newfs_ffs no longer directly work with newfs?
newfs should just be a link to newfs_ffs... and newfs_xxx for all other
xxx should just be invoked manualls.
Creating a file system is a much less automatable operation that
mounting one, IMO.
-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>