"Charles M. Hannum" wrote:

> Plus, in anything other than a diskless environment, if your /dev is
> toast you can't upgrade / to r/w to fix it.  So it didn't seem like
> much of a gain, and I punted.

Not entirely true.  If you have kernfs, you can do something like (from
memory):

	mount -t kernfs /kern /kern
	mount -u /kern/rootdev /

or thereabouts...

Simon.
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