Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 15:36:06 -0400 (EDT) From: "Michael R. Rudel" <mrr@aerosmith.dyn.ml.org> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, bde@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /boot.foo madness Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970721153435.435A-100000@aerosmith.dyn.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <28688.869506407@time.cdrom.com>
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On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > I made my position clear some time back; while the bootstrap continues > > to preferentially read ufs filesystems, all the boot-time components > > should be in a separate directory. If we assume that this is /boot, > > then there would be no pain at all in updating /boot/help.default etc. > > when /usr/mdec was updated. > > Hmmm. It's a slightly divergent topic, but I guess I should also say > that I favor putting these new foo.config files into a /boot > subdirectory here and now before they get doc'd in too many places. > I think too many new files have gone into / at this point. > > Jordan > Speaking of too many files in /, I don't like that when you install a new system, it puts (if you don't mail/etc/blah the survey) new-registration in /. Just seems kind of kludgy to me. ;) A better place, IMO, would be something like /usr. -- Michael R. Rudel -=- FreeBSD: There are no limits -=- mrr@aerosmith.dyn.ml.org FreeBSD aerosmith.dyn.ml.org 3.0-CURRENT PGP Key Block: finger mrrpgp@aerosmith.dyn.ml.org
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