From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 21 04:23:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA18214 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 21 May 1996 04:23:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay5.UU.NET (relay5.UU.NET [192.48.96.15]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA18194 for ; Tue, 21 May 1996 04:23:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from uucp2.UU.NET by relay5.UU.NET with SMTP (peer crosschecked as: uucp2.UU.NET [192.48.96.33]) id QQaqqn11292; Tue, 21 May 1996 07:23:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from uanet.UUCP by uucp2.UU.NET with UUCP/RMAIL ; Tue, 21 May 1996 07:23:41 -0400 Received: by crocodil.monolit.kiev.ua; Tue, 21 May 96 14:22:06 +0300 Received: (from dk@localhost) by rock.lot.kiev.ua (8.6.11/dk#3) id MAA05631; Tue, 21 May 1996 12:32:46 +0300 Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 12:32:46 +0300 From: Dmitry Kohmanyuk Message-Id: <199605210932.MAA05631@rock.lot.kiev.ua> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Congrats on CURRENT 5/1 SNAP... Newsgroups: cs-monolit.gated.lists.freebsd.hackers X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article <6697.832652704@time.cdrom.com> you wrote: > > Okay, but there are already copies of some of these in /stand! Also, if > Which actually should probably get blown away automagically at some > point soon in sysinstall's lifetime. I don't think that /stand is > useful enough to justify its existance. I tell you, that having a /stand saved me a hell lot of time when putting bad memory chips in my server box trashed my /bin directory two days ago. (I still don't understand why, having no writing activity on root filesystem (my /tmp is a MFS, and /var is on separate partitition) I have got that; maybe just random memory corruption? I use PCI NCR SCSI card). Anyway, /stand is less than 2 Mb; I better have it as a safety net all the time but have to reinstall the system once damaged root filesystem. (I don't know an easy way to restore only root without manually extracting all the needed files from the distribution using fixit floppy.)