From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 11 15:13:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA16088 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 15:13:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from vader.cs.berkeley.edu (vader.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.38.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA16078 for ; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 15:13:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asami@vader.cs.berkeley.edu) Received: from silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (sji-ca9-181.ix.netcom.com [209.109.236.181]) by vader.cs.berkeley.edu (8.8.7/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA26859; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 15:12:59 -0800 (PST) Received: (from asami@localhost) by silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (8.8.8/8.6.9) id PAA16909; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 15:12:56 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 15:12:56 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199811112312.PAA16909@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> To: chuckr@mat.net CC: nate@mt.sri.com, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, mike@smith.net.au, obrien@NUXI.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: (message from Chuck Robey on Wed, 11 Nov 1998 18:04:15 -0500 (EST)) Subject: Re: Is it soup yet? :-) From: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * No, you forget, there's 2 reasons to have things in /. One, they're * needed for boot. Two, they qualify as emergency repair tools. * Diskalbel falls into the 2nd category (note I agree with Nate's original * position here). And the bootblocks might be needed for emergency repair. Consider, if you have a disk that's failing all over the place, you managed to boot single-user from it (or booted from a floppy) and mounted root, you now need to somehow set up a bootable FreeBSD installation on your second hard drive. You are toast if the bootblocks are in the broken /usr. Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message