Date: Thu, 02 Oct 1997 01:19:27 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Stephen McKay <syssgm@dtir.qld.gov.au> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sysctl variables Message-ID: <1757.875780367@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Oct 1997 17:59:43 %2B1000." <199710020759.RAA07942@troll.dtir.qld.gov.au>
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> On Thursday, 2nd October 1997, "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > > >> So, please, no dual universes. > > > >OK, how about Domain/OS variant symlinks? :-) > > The thoughts of a colleague when I explained how variant symlinks exceeded > even the OS/x dual symlink that we know so well: > > "I'm sure they would bite you on the bum continuously, > but just think of the job security!" Actually, that wasn't my experience during my brief tenure on Apollo systems. If anything, they made a number of otherwise complex and annoying tasks a lot easier to do and more fault tolerant (it makes switching resources in and out in emergency situations a lot easier, for one thing). Variant symlinks rule! :-) Jordan
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