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Date:      Wed, 7 Feb 2001 15:13:00 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
Cc:        Leif Neland <leif@neland.dk>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: *_ROOT removed
Message-ID:  <20010207151300.S26076@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <200102071428.f17ESgt64468@mobile.wemm.org>; from peter@netplex.com.au on Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 06:28:42AM -0800
References:  <033801c0910d$093451c0$0e00a8c0@neland.dk> <200102071428.f17ESgt64468@mobile.wemm.org>

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* Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> [010207 06:29] wrote:
> "Leif Neland" wrote:
> > While the error-messages are clear, I don't remember seeing any heads-up, or 
>     mentioning of this in UPDATING
> > 
> > Or is it just me...?
> 
> No, there wasn't one..  The commit message was pretty clear - You are
> reading them, right?  We usually do HEAD UP's for stuff that will break
> people pretty badly or get them in trouble (eg: an unviable kernel if the
> instructions are not followed).
> 
> At least you got the message.  buildkernel would have silently ignored this
> up until recently.

Does this mean that 'FFS' isn't optional anymore?  I mean it probably
hasn't been (or never was) but the intention was that to build 4.4BSD
you needed _either_ UFS or INET, but you could ditch either one and
still build a kernel.

-Alfred


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