kern/85649: [patch] allow mounting msdos files systems as root device

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at haven.freebsd.dk
Fri Sep 2 18:20:22 GMT 2005


The following reply was made to PR kern/85649; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk at phk.freebsd.dk>
To: Ben Thomas <bthomas at virtualiron.com>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/85649: [patch] allow mounting msdos files systems as root device 
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 20:10:58 +0200

 In message <4318925B.6070507 at virtualiron.com>, Ben Thomas writes:
 
 >Support mounting of msdosfs file systems as root.  Yes, it's unusual.  Yes,
 >it was needed.
 >
 >This patch is against the 5_4_0_RELEASE code
 
 This should already work in 6.x
 
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