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Date:      Thu, 17 Jul 2003 09:09:42 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Things to remove from /rescue
Message-ID:  <20030717160942.GB46923@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <200307170906.51902.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20030717080805.GA98878@dragon.nuxi.com> <p05210671bb3c1bf6b8fd@[128.113.24.47]> <20030717033620.B51802@xorpc.icir.org> <200307170906.51902.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 09:06:51AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> > This is a crunched binary, so space is really not a big issue (plus,
> > the basic set of libraries is probably some 300-400Kb, so discussing
> > about adding/removing components which take 2-3 KB such as date,
> > sleep, comcontrol, conscontrol is just pointless in my opinion;
> > just convenience should be enough to keep some things around).
> >
> > For ipfw/natd, i admit that they might be fatter than what one might
> > want, but then again they might be useful in case you have to access
> > the outside world to grab things. What do you save by removing them ?
> 
> I think this is an excellent point.  David, can you provide actual numbers
> of how much removing each of these programs saves?

Then hell, lets just totally duplicate all of /[s]bin into /rescue.
Remember this is BSD, this is Unix.  This isn't every other gargantuan
OS.  Before you call me facious, seriously ask yourself what is the
purpose of /rescue.

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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