Date: 08 May 2003 23:39:24 +0100 From: Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: David O'Brien <arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Fw: /rescue Message-ID: <1052433564.619.32.camel@cf.freebsd-services.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20030508161532.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <XFMail.20030508161532.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, 2003-05-08 at 21:15, John Baldwin wrote: > On 08-May-2003 David O'Brien wrote: > > On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 09:42:06AM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: > >> Yep, .PATH does simplify things. Revised diff > >> attached. Thanks for the suggestion. > > > > It was mostly decided to use /stand rather than /rescue as sticking with > > FreeBSD's 10 year precidence is better than going with NetBSD's <1 yr > > one. > > Nah. /stand is what we can fit into a mfsroot on a floppy. There > are probably several other useful things that can be added if you > remove that size constraint. Also, /stand historically has never > been updated by world. /rescuse would be kept up to date. These > are really two different things. Well, there's an argument for making /stand (or /rescue) small enough to still fit on a floppy because it then represents the minimal set of tools that are available to restore a hosed box, one where perhaps /stand is also hosed and you need to recover from your minimal recovery floppy. If people get used to nvi being available as a recovery tool then they'll never learn the skills necessary to recover from severe system failures. I think we're beginning to dumb down the expected skill levels a bit too much. -- Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com> FreeBSD Services Ltd
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