makefs Sparse Files: NetBSD CLI Compatibility

[Glen Barber]

On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 09:33:01AM -0500, Eric van Gyzen wrote:
> On 08/14/2013 09:06, Glen Barber wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 08:10:41AM -0500, Eric van Gyzen wrote:
> >> 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.
> >>
> > Can you please try the attached patch?
> 
> Thanks, Glen.  That patch would work.  However, since our -p flag has
> not yet gone into a release, there is no need to keep it.  I suggest
> that we simply rename -p to -Z, to match NetBSD.  The attached patch
> does this.
> 

Not in a release, no, but it is available in stable/ branches.  I'd
prefer to deprecate the '-p' but keep the option for now, as we have no
way to know how many people are using it.

Glen

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