REVIEW: cleanvar.patch

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <9987.1074635471 at critter.freebsd.dk>, "Poul-Henning Kamp" writes:
>In message <20040120214533.GC11747 at Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>, Brooks Davis writes:
>
>>> P.S.  Hmmm... It looks like it would be easy for
>>> libarchive to also read mtree files.  Then
>>> bsdtar's built-in features for converting archive formats
>>> on-the-fly might be useful here.  Hmmm....
>>
>>This would deal with my concerns about making all the directories.  This
>>would yeild a reasionable, single stage method of creating source files
>>for populating directories without requiring mtree.  I like this idea.
>
>Considering that we are talking about a checked in mtree file, it would
>be a lot simpler to have a tool convert it to a shellscript and run that
>from /etc/rc.*
>
>Either way, my patch is clearly not way out of line and will not be

s/not//

sorry.

>committed and I doubt I will ever get it reworked, but I still urge
>the RC-team to keep 'single read-only filesystem' configs in mind,
>we have a lot of the code in the diskless case, it should just be
>available also for people booting CF-cards in embedded boxes, CDroms
>with "live systems" etc.
>
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