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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:11076 gnu.misc.discuss:15343 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,gnu.misc.discuss Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!cf-cm!cybaswan!iiitac From: iiitac@uk.ac.swan.pyr (Alan Cox) Subject: Re: Taylor UUCP on FreeBSD??? Message-ID: <1994Jun22.095452.4237@uk.ac.swan.pyr> Organization: Swansea University College References: <2u73ti$egn@glitnir.ifi.uio.no> <RSANDERS.94Jun21155032@hrothgar.mindspring.com> <2u7tcb$6mr@pdq.coe.montana.edu> Date: Wed, 22 Jun 1994 09:54:52 GMT Lines: 12 In article <2u7tcb$6mr@pdq.coe.montana.edu> nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: >As a FreeBSD developer, I'll give a quick WHY we did it that way. This is quite interesting and I'm curious to know why you didn't link everything dynamically and have a floppy disk for rescue work. The disk is really needed anyway in case you manage a stunt like destroying the partition table or corrupting a superblock (granted not a common occurence). Alan