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Re: mounting loop devices Thanx for the mkinitrd-3.0.5 patch!

To: Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: mounting loop devices Thanx for the mkinitrd-3.0.5 patch!
From: Russell Cattelan <cattelan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 19:03:07 -0500
Cc: thebs@xxxxxxxxxxx, b.j.smith@xxxxxxxx, linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
References: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0103200109490.2403-200000@dbear.engr.sgi.com> <3AB773E0.E3919CE0@theseus.com> <3AB79D4B.42DCD9A1@thebarn.com> <10103211053.ZM240119@wobbly.melbourne.sgi.com>
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Nathan Scott wrote:

> hi,
>
> On Mar 20,  1:11pm, Russell Cattelan wrote:
> > Subject: Re: mounting loop devices  Thanx for the mkinitrd-3.0.5 patch!
> > Bryan-TheBS-Smith wrote:
> >
> > > Tom Duffy wrote:
> > > >                                Name: mkinitrd-3.0.5-xfs.patch
> > > >    mkinitrd-3.0.5-xfs.patch    Type: Plain Text (TEXT/PLAIN)
> > > >                            Encoding: BASE64
> > >
> > > Much appreciated dude!
> > >
> > > -- TheBS
> > >
> > > P.S.  Where would I normally find these patches?
> >
> > Opps sorry it wasn't removed.
> > cmd/xfstests/misc/mkinitrd.xfs
> >
> > Suppose we could find a better place for this; "xfstests"  is a bit
> > misleading.
> >
>
> yeah, sorry about that - it got moved in the Great Packaging
> Reorg.  I didn't find a good spot for that, so it just ended
> up there with a few other odds and ends.  how about if I do
> a cmd/xfsmisc/ with this sort of stuff?  (I'm going to need
> it for something else later, and the quot.c code that's there
> now has been taken up into the new quota utilities, so that'll
> go away too).

sounds good.
Tom has an ism for mkinitrd but thinking about it it may be easiest to just
have an
additional copy in our tree.
Especially since the one he has checked in only works on RH systems.



>
>
> cheers.
>
> --
> Nathan

--
Russell Cattelan
--
Digital Elves inc. -- Currently on loan to SGI
Linux XFS core developer.




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