Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 09:14:08 -0700 From: David O'Brien <freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Things to remove from /rescue Message-ID: <20030717091408.A89570@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20030717115754.488e9909.Alexander@Leidinger.net>; from Alexander@Leidinger.net on Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 11:57:54AM %2B0200 References: <20030717080805.GA98878@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030717115754.488e9909.Alexander@Leidinger.net>
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On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 11:57:54AM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > - swapon, this is not needed to fix a whacked out /lib.... unless we add > > Emacs to /resuce. > > I can't come up with a scenario for this, but this doesn't mean there > isn't one. Do you have a stronger reason than "I don't know how this > could be useful"? Hmmm... perhaps mounting a mfs disk, untaring > something to it, searching for the right files... whatever, I think we > should keep it in /rescue, but I will be quiet if someone removes it. You might have a real point there. If one cannot create memory disks w/o swapon, /rescue/mdmfs needs to learn about this and do the swapon calls. I wonder how many people would remember to 'swapon' before using 'mdmfs'.
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