Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 10:11:38 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Things to remove from /rescue Message-ID: <20030719171138.GA86442@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20030717145147.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <20030717164102.GA47198@dragon.nuxi.com> <XFMail.20030717145147.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 02:51:47PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 17-Jul-2003 David O'Brien wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 09:17:00AM -0700, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > >> whatever it is, certainly the purpose is not to show how good > >> a sysadmin is in using a knife's blade as a screwdriver and a fork > >> and a spoon. Heck, even swiss army knives have these extra > >> tools. > >> > >> I think that if something in /rescue can make the task faster > >> and less error prone, removing it to save 10-50k of disk space > >> would be a big mistake. > > > > You must not have seen my other email that listed other things than just > > disk space. If I did need to get to the Internet to get bits, what does > > ipfw do for me that "sysctl net.inet.ip.fw.enable=0" doesn't? > > This doesn't handle ipfilter. You've conveniently ignored that point it > seems. No, I have little ipfilter experience so I didn't speak to it. My language explicitly mentioned ipfw so I assumed readers would understand I was only addressing ipfw in that email.
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