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Date:      Tue, 3 Apr 2001 11:02:40 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Dima Ruban <dima@rdy.com>
Cc:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/pccard Makefile.inc
Message-ID:  <20010403110240.C71213@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010402180621.A6429@sivka.rdy.com>; from dima@rdy.com on Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 06:06:21PM -0700
References:  <200104020847.f328lPi25772@freefall.freebsd.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104022033340.23902-100000@besplex.bde.org> <20010403095930.A39626@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20010402180621.A6429@sivka.rdy.com>

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On Monday,  2 April 2001 at 18:06:21 -0700, Dima Ruban wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:59:30AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
>> On Monday,  2 April 2001 at 20:34:57 +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
>>>
>>>> ru          2001/04/02 01:47:25 PDT
>>>>
>>>>   Modified files:
>>>>     usr.sbin/pccard      Makefile.inc
>>>>   Log:
>>>>   Backout revision 1.6 (removed the NOSHARED bit.)
>>>>
>>>>   These must be compiled static so that it is possible
>>>>   to use them early in the boot process.
>>>
>>> But this can't be used early in the boot process, since it is not in
>>> the root partition.  It is normally in the same partition as shared
>>> libraries.
>>
>> That depends on your partition layout.
>
> How is that? Both pccardd and pccardc are in /usr/sbin/ directory,
> shared libraries are in /usr/lib directory. I can see a brain damaged
> filesystem layout where /usr/sbin is actually part of / filesystem and
> /usr/lib is a different filesystem, but following this logic we'll have to
> compile everything static just to support configurations like that.
> I don't think it's very smart.

There's nothing brain-damaged about having /usr on the root file
system.  If it weren't for bikeshed issues, I'd recommend it.

Greg
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