HEADSUP: change in root mount semantics for md* devices.

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <1100108882.760.42.camel at kaiser.sig11.org>, Matteo Riondato writes:
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>Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> We have had a hack which would mount the root filesystem R/W if
>> the device were named 'md*'.  As part of the vnode work I'm doing
>> I have had to remove this hack.
>>=20
>> People building systems which use preloaded MD root filesystems
>> may need to insert a "/sbin/mount -u -o rw /dev/md0 /" in their
>> /etc/rc scripts.
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>Surely I'm missing something but I cannot get FreeSBIE running on Qemu anym=
>ore,
>and I think it's related to this change (cvsup'ed early afternoon CEST).
>I changed /etc/rc in the following way:
> --- /etc/rc.orig     Sun Oct 17 09:02:41 2004
>+++ /etc/rc    Wed Nov 10 18:27:19 2004
>@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@
>=20
> . /etc/rc.subr
>=20
>+mount -u -o rw /dev/md0 /=20


Actually the correct way is probably to put a proper line in /etc/fstab
and let the normal rc scripts deal with it like it was a normal disk.

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