From owner-freebsd-current Sat Dec 19 02:07:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA20245 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 02:07:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [209.157.86.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA20237 for ; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 02:07:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id CAA07232; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 02:07:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 02:07:24 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199812191007.CAA07232@apollo.backplane.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I almost hate to suggest this... References: <81864.914061639@zippy.cdrom.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :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. (Please include original email in any response) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message