Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 18:04:15 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, obrien@NUXI.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is it soup yet? :-) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811111802590.10145-100000@picnic.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <199811112240.PAA19821@mt.sri.com>
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On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Nate Williams wrote: > > > statements are flame-bait and provide no content. Moving stuff out of > > > /usr/mdec provides *NO* (!!) functionality improvement, just movement. > > > > Would you also advocate moving disklabel from /sbin to /usr/sbin > > then? If not, why not? > > Works for me! Since you can't boot w/out working boot-blocks, it makes > no sense to depend on disklabel having stuff that it can't get unless > /usr is mounted. No, you forget, there's 2 reasons to have things in /. One, they're needed for boot. Two, they qualify as emergency repair tools. Diskalbel falls into the 2nd category (note I agree with Nate's original position here). > > > Nate > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (NetBSD). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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