Fw: /rescue

John Baldwin jhb at FreeBSD.org
Thu May 8 13:15:47 PDT 2003


On 08-May-2003 David O'Brien wrote:
> On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 09:42:06AM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
>> Yep, .PATH does simplify things.  Revised diff
>> attached.  Thanks for the suggestion.
> 
> It was mostly decided to use /stand rather than /rescue as sticking with
> FreeBSD's 10 year precidence is better than going with NetBSD's <1 yr
> one.

Nah.  /stand is what we can fit into a mfsroot on a floppy.  There
are probably several other useful things that can be added if you
remove that size constraint.  Also, /stand historically has never
been updated by world.  /rescuse would be kept up to date.  These
are really two different things.

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