Raphael H. Becker
2005-Mar-21 02:42 UTC
Mounting a filesystem-in-a-file via fstab? (md/mfs)
Hi *,
I recently tried to move my newsspool into a seperate filesystem in a
flatfile and mounted it as a md device. Works perfectly with hands-on,
but there doesn't seem to exist a proper way to do this during startup
(/etc/fstab).
Actually I have this line in /etc/fstab, but everytime that filesystem
is mounted via fstab, it will be formatted using newfs:
md /var/spool/news mfs rw,-F/data/spool_news.ufs,-U 0 0
How do I disable the newfs from mount_mfs?
Is there any proper way in the bootscripts, to set up md-devices and
mount them automatically? It should even destroy /dev/md${n} on umount.
Any solutions? TIA.
Regards,
Raphael Becker
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 11:42:05AM +0100, Raphael H. Becker typed:> > Hi *, > > I recently tried to move my newsspool into a seperate filesystem in a > flatfile and mounted it as a md device. Works perfectly with hands-on, > but there doesn't seem to exist a proper way to do this during startup > (/etc/fstab). > > Actually I have this line in /etc/fstab, but everytime that filesystem > is mounted via fstab, it will be formatted using newfs: > > md /var/spool/news mfs rw,-F/data/spool_news.ufs,-U 0 0 > > How do I disable the newfs from mount_mfs? > > Is there any proper way in the bootscripts, to set up md-devices and > mount them automatically? It should even destroy /dev/md${n} on umount. > > Any solutions? TIA.There's a PR (and patch) on this issue. It was about to be committed somewhere in November, but unfortunately not yet. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=57641 Ruben