Subject: Re: renaming /boot to /boot_
To: Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com>
From: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/30/1999 00:28:59
In message <Pine.NEB.4.10.9909292211460.2434-100000@starwolf.com>
Greywolf writes:
>Hey, can I ask another Real Stoopid [TM] question?
>
>What's the point of symlinking bootblocks?  They're gonna have to
>be on the same device anyway in order for the symlink to resolve
>[i.e. the bootblocks know jack about where other devices will be
>mounted!], why not just hard-link if you have to link at all?

mea culpa. that's precisely what I was trying to say.
If didn't make snese, its probably the 12-hr transpacific flight
yesterday, on which everyone was coughing. Sorry about that, Chief.