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Date:      Thu, 17 Jul 2003 09:06:51 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Things to remove from /rescue
Message-ID:  <200307170906.51902.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030717033620.B51802@xorpc.icir.org>
References:  <20030717080805.GA98878@dragon.nuxi.com> <p05210671bb3c1bf6b8fd@[128.113.24.47]> <20030717033620.B51802@xorpc.icir.org>

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On Thursday 17 July 2003 06:36 am, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 05:43:10AM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> > At 1:08 AM -0700 7/17/03, David O'Brien wrote:
> > >This is a list of binaries that I don't feel should be part
> > >of /rescue as it's mission is to recover/rebuild a "broken" /
> > >[due to all the binaries being dynamic].  Is there
> > >justification for keeping them?
>
> 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?

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John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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