Fix make release for 4-STABLE

Shawn K. Quinn skquinn at xevious.kicks-ass.net
Mon Jan 19 03:39:58 PST 2004


On Monday 2004 January 19 04:58, Makoto Matsushita wrote:
> Yes, floppies are so cheap to buy, but sometimes not handy you know.
> I believe that some of my friends said to me that "hey, I'm so tired
> to write THREE floppy images, it's so slow!"
> 
> It would be technically easy to introduce splitfs for kernel/mfsroot
> (it is already there), but it also introduce an important design 
> change. We should have enough time to consider that we decide the 3rd
> floppy image treats a mandatory one.

I suspect we will not have to deal with floppies for too much longer. 
It's pretty obvious that within a couple more years they will be 
completely replaced by CD-R media or similar things. So, having to use 
three (or four or five) floppy images is merely a sign that floppy 
disks are becoming less useful, and should not be viewed as a solution 
with any permanence. Floppies will certainly be very close to obsolete 
by 6.0-RELEASE, if not by the time of 5.4-RELEASE or thereabouts.

(And, BTW, these days floppies are really not that cheap compared to 
even CD-RW media, if you evaluate them on a "per megabyte" basis.)

-- 
Shawn K. Quinn


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