makefs Sparse Files: NetBSD CLI Compatibility

[Mehmet Erol Sanliturk]

On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Glen Barber <gjb at freebsd.org> 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?
>
> Glen
>
>


 .Nd create a file system image from a directory tree or a mtree manifest



an mtree


+Provided for compatibiltiy with


compatibility



Thank you very much .

Mehmet Erol Sanliturk