Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 00:42:37 +0100 (CET) From: Marius Bendiksen <mbendiks@eunet.no> To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The shared /bin and /sbin bikeshed Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10011100040320.25226-100000@login-1.eunet.no> In-Reply-To: <200011091909.eA9J9wM10639@earth.backplane.com>
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> /sbin down, they are already fairly small (3.8M and 10M) and it > isn't as though we need the disk space! The static nature of Actually, for embedded applications, you need the disk space. With the above definition of "fairly small", you'd have a hard time fitting a basic install on a 16m flash. > /bin and /sbin have saved me more times then I can remember. I also > have unfond memories of blowing /lib up under linux and not being > able to do anything. Bootfs sort of solves this, in that you could optionally build your bootfs to contain fixit tools, and fall back to this if init fails to resolve its symbols and all that. Marius To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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