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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] cwfs
Date: Fri,  8 May 2009 15:10:50 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <061ac3481db4fdd77bb856033bbd6697@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6b5988834820480073f8771694e32d64@gmx.de>

> hmmm...  as i'm thinking of it...  this is broken...  if for example
> you want to do a devopy, you always have to type end before it starts
> doing its work right?  but init will continue and try to mount it wich
> will fail in this case panic the kernel.

i'm not sure why devcopy would be useful with cwfs.
dd should work just fine outside the fs.

the diskless fs doesn't have a config-time devcopy but you
can run it at the normal console prompt.  this is good for
updating your kernel.

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-08 19:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-08 16:27 cinap_lenrek
2009-05-08 16:39 ` erik quanstrom
2009-05-08 17:56   ` cinap_lenrek
2009-05-08 19:10     ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2009-05-08 19:39       ` cinap_lenrek
2013-02-22  8:11 arisawa
2013-02-22  8:55 ` cinap_lenrek
2013-02-22 10:15   ` arisawa
2013-02-22 10:25     ` arisawa
2013-02-22 10:40     ` erik quanstrom
2013-02-22 11:33       ` arisawa
2013-02-22 11:43         ` erik quanstrom

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