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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.x release question
To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 19:35:38 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <1295.845515554@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Oct 16, 96 06:25:54 pm
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> > > I feel they had a perfectly valid point.
> > 
> > Let them use union mounts...
> 
> I see.  The "let them eat cake" argument, eh?  Well, Marie, we
> don't have unionfs and the peasants don't have cake. :-)
> 
> 					Jordan
> 
> P.S. To anyone who nonetheless feels compelled to say "We *do* have
> unionfs!  We do!  I saw it in /sys/miscfs/union just the other day!"
> let me just clarify that we haven't had anything resembling a working
> unionfs for close to 2 years now, and those who were holding their
> breath for it died of asphyxiation long ago.

I have unionfs.  Commit my changes, and you can have unionfs too.


Actually I wasn't thinking of the Marie Antionette "let them eat cake"
argument, I was thinking of your "if they want it, let them write code
and submit it for core team approval" argument.

If people really wanted persistance as badly as you claim they do, they
would be willing to write code (according to that argument, anyway).


					Regards,
					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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