Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 05:46:57 -0600 From: "Shawn K. Quinn" <skquinn@xevious.kicks-ass.net> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fix make release for 4-STABLE Message-ID: <200401190546.57312.skquinn@xevious.kicks-ass.net> In-Reply-To: <20040119195826X.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> References: <20040118235148M.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> <20040119095453.GA43280@pc5.i.0x5.de> <20040119195826X.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>
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On Monday 2004 January 19 04:58, Makoto Matsushita wrote: > Yes, floppies are so cheap to buy, but sometimes not handy you know. > I believe that some of my friends said to me that "hey, I'm so tired > to write THREE floppy images, it's so slow!" > > It would be technically easy to introduce splitfs for kernel/mfsroot > (it is already there), but it also introduce an important design > change. We should have enough time to consider that we decide the 3rd > floppy image treats a mandatory one. I suspect we will not have to deal with floppies for too much longer. It's pretty obvious that within a couple more years they will be completely replaced by CD-R media or similar things. So, having to use three (or four or five) floppy images is merely a sign that floppy disks are becoming less useful, and should not be viewed as a solution with any permanence. Floppies will certainly be very close to obsolete by 6.0-RELEASE, if not by the time of 5.4-RELEASE or thereabouts. (And, BTW, these days floppies are really not that cheap compared to even CD-RW media, if you evaluate them on a "per megabyte" basis.) -- Shawn K. Quinn
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