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Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:22:56 -0500
From: Yoshihiro Ota <ota@j.email.ne.jp>
To: Alexander Best <alexbestms@math.uni-muenster.de>, Miroslav Lachman
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Subject: Re: periodic(8) daily should backup bsdlabel(8) / fdisk(8) disk
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Alexander:

I suggest you to follow up the PR with your patch so that your
patch is visible from the PR, at least.

Taking too long to get someone's attention is a whole different
problem, though.

Thanks,
Hiro

On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:46:34 +0100
Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> wrote:

> Alexander Best wrote:
> > hi there,
> > 
> > i was browsing the pr-db and found this pr:
> > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/86388
> > 
> > i think it would be a very nice addition to daily. i attached
> > 220.backup-bsdlabels. it can also be found here:
> > http://digitalfreaks.org/~lavalamp/220.backup-bsdlabels
> > 
> > backing up the disk labels on a daily basis sounds like a really good thing to
> > do. also the pr states that netbsd and openbsd are doing this for over 10
> > years now.
> 
> I second that. I posted in to this PR back in 2007, but this PR has 
> still no attention of commiters. :(
> 
> It is sad that some "simple" PRs are opened for more than 3 years. It 
> should be commited or refused and closed.
> 
> Miroslav Lachman
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