Fw: /rescue

[John Baldwin]

On 09-May-2003 David O'Brien wrote:
> On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 04:15:32PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Why??  /stand is the static bits you start with.  'make world' is free to
> expand and update them.

make world doesn't even know it exists.  /stand isn't present
in /etc/mtree/BSD.root.dist and only exists for systems installed
with sysinstall.  If you have your own install script that newfs's
a disk and untars the base dist, you won't have a /stand directory.

> If not, then please have sysinstall rm -rf /stand.

*shrug*, it is an artifact that has proved useful in the past for
system recovery.  If /rescue becomes a reality then I would have no
problem with /stand being removed after a successful install.

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