makefs Sparse Files: NetBSD CLI Compatibility
Eric van Gyzen
eric at vangyzen.net
Wed Aug 14 13:10:50 UTC 2013
NetBSD's makefs has a -Z flag to create the image as a sparse file. In
FreeBSD, the flag is spelled -p. Is there a reason for using a
different flag? It would be very nice to preserve CLI compatibility
with NetBSD.
NetBSD committed first (by one month), and neither change has gone into
a release yet, so we should change to match NetBSD. We should do it
soon, too, since our change will go into 9.2-RELEASE.
If we agree, I'll gladly make the patches, trivial though they'll be.
Eric
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