Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 16:13:05 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, obrien@NUXI.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is it soup yet? :-) Message-ID: <199811112313.QAA20091@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811111802590.10145-100000@picnic.mat.net> References: <199811112240.PAA19821@mt.sri.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811111802590.10145-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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> > > > statements are flame-bait and provide no content. Moving stuff out of > > > > /usr/mdec provides *NO* (!!) functionality improvement, just movement. > > > > > > Would you also advocate moving disklabel from /sbin to /usr/sbin > > > then? If not, why not? > > > > Works for me! Since you can't boot w/out working boot-blocks, it makes > > no sense to depend on disklabel having stuff that it can't get unless > > /usr is mounted. > > No, you forget, there's 2 reasons to have things in /. One, they're > needed for boot. Two, they qualify as emergency repair tools. But, if you can't repair the system w/out mounting /usr, then disklabel(8)'s presence on the root FS buys you nothing. That and the fact that you wouldn't be running disklabel on a system that only has a working / partition. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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