Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 16:50:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: dillon@earth.backplane.com (Matt Dillon) Cc: peter@netplex.com.au (Peter Wemm), imp@village.org (Warner Losh), arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The shared /bin and /sbin bikeshed Message-ID: <200011101650.JAA20567@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <200011091909.eA9J9wM10639@earth.backplane.com> from "Matt Dillon" at Nov 09, 2000 11:09:58 AM
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> I'd recommend against the linux /lib + /usr/lib model, it's a big > mess. I don't see much of a point in cutting the size of /bin and > /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 > /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. I had a similar experience with FreeBSD, when the kernel.ko stuff went in, and when I accidently trashed /kernel. If there is a single point of failure, there's a single point of failure, and avoiding the /lib + /usr/lib model won't get rid of the fact. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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