From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 1 12:25:20 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47FD637B401 for ; Tue, 1 Jul 2003 12:25:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail9.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.209]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43B204402F for ; Tue, 1 Jul 2003 12:25:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 30202 invoked from network); 1 Jul 2003 19:25:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender )encrypted SMTP for ; 1 Jul 2003 19:25:15 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h61JPCGI075909; Tue, 1 Jul 2003 15:25:13 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.4 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20030701185047.GD67015@dragon.nuxi.com> Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 15:25:26 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: "David O'Brien" cc: Makoto Matsushita cc: "Bruce A. Mah" cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org cc: gordon@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/mtree BSD.root.dist src/include paths.h src/rescue Makefile README src/rescue/librescue Makefile src/rescue/rescue Makefile X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 19:25:20 -0000 On 01-Jul-2003 David O'Brien wrote: > On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 02:28:05PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: >> No. sysinstall copies over /stand and then chroots into the new root >> for the actual install after it does the newfs. If you don't copy /stand >> then installs will fail. > > Yes, we need a /stand during the install. But not post install. Maybe for your machines, not for some machines I work with that use custom install scripts. :) >> Please just leave it as is. /stand is still >> useful in the scary case that /rescue and normal root get hosed and it >> doesn't take up very much space anyways. > > Feh. Lets also make /bin2 and /sbin2 incase /[s]bin, /rescue, and /stand > get messed up. If you've messed up /[s]bin and /rescue you should give > up and do a binary reinstall. /stand waits space and there is now zero > use for it given /rescue. Oh, wanh: 1.8M /stand This is hardly worth whining over. /rescue and /stand have different purposes and you just can't get over that since you are so used to abusing /stand as a /rescue equivalent and can't understand that /stand has other purposes besides that. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/