From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 19 03:39:58 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 744A016A4CE for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 03:39:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from xevious.kicks-ass.net (dsl093-025-119.hou1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.93.25.119]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE67543D45 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 03:39:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from skquinn@xevious.kicks-ass.net) Received: from xevious.kicks-ass.net (skquinn@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by xevious.kicks-ass.net (8.12.10/8.12.6) with ESMTP id i0JBkw8J015282 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 05:46:58 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from skquinn@xevious.kicks-ass.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by xevious.kicks-ass.net (8.12.10/8.12.6/Submit) id i0JBkvA2015281 for stable@freebsd.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 05:46:57 -0600 (CST) From: "Shawn K. Quinn" To: stable@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 05:46:57 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <20040118235148M.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> <20040119095453.GA43280@pc5.i.0x5.de> <20040119195826X.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20040119195826X.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200401190546.57312.skquinn@xevious.kicks-ass.net> Subject: Re: Fix make release for 4-STABLE X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 11:39:58 -0000 On Monday 2004 January 19 04:58, Makoto Matsushita wrote: > Yes, floppies are so cheap to buy, but sometimes not handy you know. > I believe that some of my friends said to me that "hey, I'm so tired > to write THREE floppy images, it's so slow!" > > It would be technically easy to introduce splitfs for kernel/mfsroot > (it is already there), but it also introduce an important design > change. We should have enough time to consider that we decide the 3rd > floppy image treats a mandatory one. I suspect we will not have to deal with floppies for too much longer. It's pretty obvious that within a couple more years they will be completely replaced by CD-R media or similar things. So, having to use three (or four or five) floppy images is merely a sign that floppy disks are becoming less useful, and should not be viewed as a solution with any permanence. Floppies will certainly be very close to obsolete by 6.0-RELEASE, if not by the time of 5.4-RELEASE or thereabouts. (And, BTW, these days floppies are really not that cheap compared to even CD-RW media, if you evaluate them on a "per megabyte" basis.) -- Shawn K. Quinn