where someone would want to
have it take an alternate partition to run off of - it could be an
alternate boot behavior programmed into the boot block code at label time.
Note: I don't know exactly what we do now; I'm just taking the above
comments as fact.
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of the preserved names --
displaying them in df, mount, etc.
And what if you have to use them (or want to)? If df/mount/etc
have bugs, let's fix those (not that I think they're significant).
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people running large numbers of servers accumulated
over time have a similar problem (Yahoo?) So I'd add one vote for making
to easy (or at least not hard) to include multiple architecture
optimizations in one kernel/userland release, ala Solaris.
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style (I'm the author
of the patch). Any other problems while I'm at it?
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Perhaps I'm totally wrong here and misunderstood the issue.
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calculate them for you), etc are in Warner's hands. (I got
annoyed at it one evening...) Now, if Warner would commit them :-)
(Matt has looked at the patch also.)
They also have improved error checking, etc.
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that
they have significant utility, and that the real issue would be one of
code not using them, especially as people work to remove the Giant
lock for SMP.
Or is the discussion in the man page wrong in some way?
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