Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 14:42:54 +0800 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The shared /bin and /sbin bikeshed Message-ID: <20001110144254.B1686@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200011090155.SAA35024@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 06:55:29PM -0700 References: <200011090155.SAA35024@harmony.village.org>
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On Wednesday, 8 November 2000 at 18:55:29 -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > > I have a patch that makes /bin and /sbin optionally non-static. For > small systems that have / and /usr on the same file system, you can > save about 5M-6M of disk space by making /bin and /sbin shared. > > Since this is undesirable for systems that have / and /usr on > different file systems, I thought I'd make an option. > > What should I call the option? > > I'm thinking SLASHED_SHARED, but that's a horrible name. > > I've already rejected DANGEROUS_SBIN_BIN_SHARED_OPTION as being too > long I have opinions on this matter (of course :-), but I don't have time to discuss them. Once the shed is painted, could you post a summary? Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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