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David Taylor wrote:
> Hmm, but if /sbin/mount_ufs (say) is dynamically linked, and the libraries
> are still in /usr, how do you mount /usr?

libc and anything else needed by the mount would go on /, just
like the mount program itself.  It's no coincidence that the
/ mount is done in the kernel, rather than by a mount program.

-- Terry