Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 10:33:27 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: bde@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /boot.foo madness Message-ID: <28688.869506407@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 22 Jul 1997 00:26:55 %2B0930." <199707211456.AAA23939@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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> I made my position clear some time back; while the bootstrap continues > to preferentially read ufs filesystems, all the boot-time components > should be in a separate directory. If we assume that this is /boot, > then there would be no pain at all in updating /boot/help.default etc. > when /usr/mdec was updated. Hmmm. It's a slightly divergent topic, but I guess I should also say that I favor putting these new foo.config files into a /boot subdirectory here and now before they get doc'd in too many places. I think too many new files have gone into / at this point. Jordan
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