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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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>My vote is for keeping the #error for the time being (to give clear
>errors about what is wrong as long as we can), but going back to
>compatibility mode (ie, "options FFS" alone makes it possible to
>boot).  To push users towards getting their config files right, we
>could use a patch like this (again 1.106, to include all the changes
>under discussion):

"right" config files wouldn't have "options FFS_ROOT"; forcing that
just exports configuration warts.

Bruce

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