From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Nov 9 15:42:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail-relay.eunet.no (mail-relay.eunet.no [193.71.71.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C96237B479 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 15:42:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from login-1.eunet.no (login-1.eunet.no [193.75.110.2]) by mail-relay.eunet.no (8.9.3/8.9.3/GN) with ESMTP id AAA66786; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 00:42:38 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mbendiks@eunet.no) Received: from localhost (mbendiks@localhost) by login-1.eunet.no (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA25301; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 00:42:37 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mbendiks@eunet.no) X-Authentication-Warning: login-1.eunet.no: mbendiks owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 00:42:37 +0100 (CET) From: Marius Bendiksen To: Matt Dillon Cc: Peter Wemm , Warner Losh , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The shared /bin and /sbin bikeshed In-Reply-To: <200011091909.eA9J9wM10639@earth.backplane.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > /sbin down, they are already fairly small (3.8M and 10M) and it > isn't as though we need the disk space! The static nature of Actually, for embedded applications, you need the disk space. With the above definition of "fairly small", you'd have a hard time fitting a basic install on a 16m flash. > /bin and /sbin have saved me more times then I can remember. I also > have unfond memories of blowing /lib up under linux and not being > able to do anything. Bootfs sort of solves this, in that you could optionally build your bootfs to contain fixit tools, and fall back to this if init fails to resolve its symbols and all that. Marius To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message