On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 04:26:48PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
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> 
> On Fri, 25 May 2001 09:34:16 -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
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> > Why can't that program _replace_ mount_mfs? And assume the name too?
> 
> The objection that impressed me the last time this was suggested is that
> it's totally counter-intuitive to have a binary called mount_mfs that
> doesn't mount an MFS filesystem.  Rather, it does all sorts of icky
> extra stuff to achieve a rather specific goal.
> 
> I still don't see why an rc.conf knob specifically for /tmp isn't
> sufficient.  That's what people want this for.  Others can read the
> excellent documentation supplied in mdconfig(8), which is appropriately
> cross-referenced from md(4), which is the manual page for the device
> concerned.  Logical, orthogonal and pretty damn easy, when you look at
> the EXAMPLES section. :-)

Someone please just fix it :)

Kris

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