Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 15:50:26 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> 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: <199811112350.PAA06123@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 11 Nov 1998 15:40:17 MST." <199811112240.PAA19821@mt.sri.com>
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> > > 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. Disklabel doesn't depend on the files unless you're trying to make something bootable. On the other hand, you may need disklabel in order to recover the filesystem holding /usr. Moving disklabel is indeed change for change's sake, and gratuitous to boot. Much of this talk of bloat is nothing but a joke, since in the common case disk space costs less than talk. In the non-common case, you're going to customise anyway, so it doesn't matter where things "normally" are. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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