From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Mar 29 21:30:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3943A37B71F for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 21:30:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id f2U5UTl09991; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 21:30:29 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 21:30:29 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Brooks Davis Cc: Kirk McKusick , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Background Fsck Message-ID: <20010329213029.T9431@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <200103290522.VAA06966@beastie.mckusick.com> <20010329202028.S9431@fw.wintelcom.net> <20010329211453.B21650@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010329211453.B21650@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>; from brooks@one-eyed-alien.net on Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 09:14:53PM -0800 X-all-your-base: are belong to us. Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Brooks Davis [010329 21:14] wrote: > On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 08:20:30PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > Well, even though most common sense says not to make a giant /, > > people still do this, especially people coming from Linux. > > > > It would be good to be able to background check / if at all possible. > > Wouldn't just moving it to pass 2 take care of that? I don't know. I'm saying that if there's something in here that makes doing on / not possible because of Kirk's preference (even though it's technically possible) I hope he reconsiders. If it's not technically possible then we'll live with it. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message