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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: FS PATCHES: THE NEXT GENERATION
To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 16:06:43 -0700 (MST)
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> Terry, I'm wondering if you've gone blind here again or something
> because I've said *several* times that there's NO PROBLEM WITH
> DEPLOYING IT RIGHT NOW, JUST DON'T MAKE IT FRIGGIN' *MANDATORY* YET
> UNTIL IT'S FIXED!
> 
> I'm hoping that capital letters will penetrate your cranium since no
> other forms of explanation seem to have succeeded so far! :-)

OK. Don't make devfs mandatory.  Make it optional and included by default.

But make specfs optional and excluded by default...

The same way procfs wasn't mandatory for a long time.  8-).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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