Date: Sun, 13 Aug 1995 12:05:37 -0800 From: "Jim Howard" <jiho@sierra.net> To: Faried Nawaz <fn@pain.csrv.uidaho.edu>, freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: gnumalloc Message-ID: <199508132034.AA12800@diamond.sierra.net>
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> how did you compile things in /bin and /sbin with shared libraries? is > your /usr/lib in the same partition as / ? or did you do something with > ldconfig and ld.so? i'm curious because i've never tried it, but wanted > to... Gee, clever me, it just sank in on me what the point about partitions was. I installed everything on one partation, because I've only got one drive, and that made sense to me. If the /usr tree were on a separate partition you'd have an impossible time, because init (and several other programs) are running well before a separate /usr partition gets mounted! It's an issue I never faced. I suppose servers ALWAYS have /usr on a separate partition, which makes another reason (in addition to performance) why shared libraries for /bin and /sbin MIGHT not be a good idea for servers. This is yet another example of how in the U*IX world, the desktop user's logic isn't always compatible with the site administrator's logic.
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