Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 14:51:47 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Things to remove from /rescue Message-ID: <XFMail.20030717145147.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20030717164102.GA47198@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On 17-Jul-2003 David O'Brien wrote: > On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 09:17:00AM -0700, Luigi Rizzo wrote: >> whatever it is, certainly the purpose is not to show how good >> a sysadmin is in using a knife's blade as a screwdriver and a fork >> and a spoon. Heck, even swiss army knives have these extra >> tools. >> >> I think that if something in /rescue can make the task faster >> and less error prone, removing it to save 10-50k of disk space >> would be a big mistake. > > You must not have seen my other email that listed other things than just > disk space. If I did need to get to the Internet to get bits, what does > ipfw do for me that "sysctl net.inet.ip.fw.enable=0" doesn't? This doesn't handle ipfilter. You've conveniently ignored that point it seems. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/
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