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Date:      Sat, 19 Dec 1998 02:00:39 -0800
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: I almost hate to suggest this... 
Message-ID:  <81864.914061639@zippy.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 19 Dec 1998 01:55:09 PST." <199812190955.BAA07155@apollo.backplane.com> 

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>     When someone has time available, making a separate mount_ufs
>     and rewriting mount itself to always exec a sub-mount binary
>     would be even better.  But as a poor-man's fix the above

Hmmm.  I always got the feeling that the original CSRG folk
deliberately stuck "ufs mounting" into mount(8) so that one binary
could be copied around easily for fixit purposes, ufs being the one fs
that could be deemed somewhat in the "bootstrap" class and perhaps
worthy of special treatment.

Then again, maybe not, I'm just saying that this most obvious lack of
orthogonality (not writing mount(8) as a minimal wrapper) may well
have been deliberate.  I've bcc'd somebody who might know the real
story in any case. :)

- Jordan

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