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Date:      Mon, 24 Nov 2003 20:43:29 -0500
From:      Richard Coleman <richardcoleman@mindspring.com>
To:        kientzle@acm.org
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: /bin and /sbin are now dynamically linked
Message-ID:  <3FC2B3C1.4090803@mindspring.com>
In-Reply-To: <3FC298E9.1050000@acm.org>
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Tim Kientzle wrote:

> David O'Brien wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 12:08:58PM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote:
>>
>>> ... I think [/rescue] only needs to support those
>>> recovery actions necessary to repair /bin and /sbin if they break.
>>
>>
>> My stance is that no failure mode needs to
>> be repairable that wasn't repairable with a static /.
> 
> 
> I'm willing to compromise, David.
> 
> Here's what I suggest:
> 
>  * I could support removing vi/ex from /rescue.
> 
>  * In exchange for this concession, would you be willing
>    to support adding fetch?
> 
> I expect this exchange would result in a net 150-200 kB
> savings in /rescue.
> 
> How about it?
> 
> Tim

I think a better compromise is to add the make.conf option so that extra 
utilities may be added to /rescue.  Then leave both vi and fetch out of 
the default.

With the size of disk drives these days, (for my own setup) I'm tempted 
to just add a complete copy of /bin and /sbin into /rescue.  The extra 
100 meg doesn't take much out of a 80 gig hard drive.

Richard Coleman
richardcoleman@mindspring.com




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