Fw: /rescue

[David O'Brien]

On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 01:49:21PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> > 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

make world and /etc/mtree/BSD.root.dist doesn't know about your /rescue
either.  I guess we're done then.  Lets go eBay'ing.

> > 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.

Uh?  The /rescue you refer to will be used for system recovery.  I'm not
sure there is any question that we need to switch to dynamic / for NSS,
PAM, new protocols, support for LDAP, etc...