On February 5, 2002 11:13 pm, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Alex Bligh - linux-kernel wrote:
>
> >
> > I would be surprised if there is anyone on this list
> > who has not lost at some point either the .config, the
> > kysms, or something similar associated with at least
> > one build they've made.
> >
>
>
> Sure. And people have lost their root filesystems due to "rm -rf /".
> That doesn't mean we build the entire (real) root filesystem into the kernel.
Well, it seems to be down to you and Arjan aguing that this usability
improvement isn't needed, vs quite a few *users* who are complaining about
the current state of things, as well they should because it's less good than
it could be.
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