Re: Things to remove from /rescue

From: David O'Brien (freebsd-arch_at_FreeBSD.ORG)
Date: 07/17/03

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    Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 09:14:08 -0700
To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>

    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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