From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 11 15:13:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA16092 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 15:13:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA16080 for ; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 15:13:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA28738; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 16:13:06 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id QAA20091; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 16:13:05 -0700 Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 16:13:05 -0700 Message-Id: <199811112313.QAA20091@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Chuck Robey Cc: Nate Williams , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Mike Smith , obrien@NUXI.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is it soup yet? :-) In-Reply-To: References: <199811112240.PAA19821@mt.sri.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > > statements are flame-bait and provide no content. Moving stuff out of > > > > /usr/mdec provides *NO* (!!) functionality improvement, just movement. > > > > > > Would you also advocate moving disklabel from /sbin to /usr/sbin > > > then? If not, why not? > > > > Works for me! Since you can't boot w/out working boot-blocks, it makes > > no sense to depend on disklabel having stuff that it can't get unless > > /usr is mounted. > > No, you forget, there's 2 reasons to have things in /. One, they're > needed for boot. Two, they qualify as emergency repair tools. But, if you can't repair the system w/out mounting /usr, then disklabel(8)'s presence on the root FS buys you nothing. That and the fact that you wouldn't be running disklabel on a system that only has a working / partition. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message