From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Nov 8 18:49: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from isris.pair.com (isris.pair.com [209.68.2.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 84B8237B4C5 for ; Wed, 8 Nov 2000 18:48:59 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 9271 invoked by uid 3130); 9 Nov 2000 02:48:57 -0000 Message-ID: <20001108214857.A9165@electricjellyfish.net> Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 21:48:57 -0500 From: Garrett Rooney To: Warner Losh , arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The shared /bin and /sbin bikeshed References: <200011090155.SAA35024@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1 In-Reply-To: <200011090155.SAA35024@harmony.village.org>; from Warner Losh on Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 06:55:29PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 06:55:29PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > > I have a patch that makes /bin and /sbin optionally non-static. For > small systems that have / and /usr on the same file system, you can > save about 5M-6M of disk space by making /bin and /sbin shared. > > Since this is undesirable for systems that have / and /usr on > different file systems, I thought I'd make an option. > > What should I call the option? > > I'm thinking SLASHED_SHARED, but that's a horrible name. > > I've already rejected DANGEROUS_SBIN_BIN_SHARED_OPTION as being too > long BIN_SBIN_SHARED ? simple, to the point, and short. -- garrett rooney my pid is inigo montoya. rooneg@electricjellyfish.net you kill -9 my parent process. http://electricjellyfish.net/ prepare to vi. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message