Date: 30 Mar 2000 14:48:48 +0300 From: Ville-Pertti Keinonen <will@iki.fi> To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shared /bin and /sbin Message-ID: <86hfdovftr.fsf@not.demophon.com> In-Reply-To: imp@village.org's message of "30 Mar 2000 10:23:30 %2B0300" References: <200003300722.AAA21918@harmony.village.org>
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imp@village.org (Warner Losh) writes: > I have a system that has one file system on it (eg everything is on > /). I'm finding that a lot of space is wasted on the multiple static > copies of libc in /sbin and /bin. I was thinking about building, for > this system only, /bin and /sbin dynamic. Has anybody ever done this? > What are the implications of doing this. I can't think of anything > that would stop this from working, but I thought I'd run it by people > here. I've done this, and did manage to get an almost complete system into a reasonably small space. It was 2.2.x, but I wouldn't expect any special new requirements with more current versions. IIRC it didn't require much more than fixing the appropriate Makefile.incs in the source tree. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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