Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 02:07:24 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I almost hate to suggest this... Message-ID: <199812191007.CAA07232@apollo.backplane.com> References: <81864.914061639@zippy.cdrom.com>
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: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
Well, a fixit floppy could just contain mount_ufs :-). I've gotten
into the habit of calling mount_mfs directly myself, and even mount_nfs
on my old nfs boot floppy. I don't even think I had 'mount' on that
floppy!
-Matt
Matthew Dillon Engineering, HiWay Technologies, Inc. & BEST Internet
Communications & God knows what else.
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