Re: init bug / crash recovery

Robert L Krawitz (rlk@tiac.net)
Fri, 15 Mar 1996 10:28:36 -0500


From: Alan Cox <alan@cymru.net>
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 15:11:54 +0000 (GMT)

> It's looking for a shared libary, and can't find it.
> Why on earth is something as critical as e2fsck dynamically linked, anyway?

Because if you followed the instructions you've got a seperate rescue disk.

Rescue disks fail themselves, etc... I guess I'm of the two belts,
two suspenders, and still double check everything school of system
management. Dynamic linking is all well and good for large user-mode
programs, but stuff that's critical for booting should be as
absolutely bullet-proof as possible.

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