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Date:      Wed, 08 Nov 2000 19:00:58 -0800
From:      Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: The shared /bin and /sbin bikeshed 
Message-ID:  <200011090301.eA931Pv26563@cwsys.cwsent.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 08 Nov 2000 19:49:36 MST." <200011090249.TAA35455@harmony.village.org> 

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In message <200011090249.TAA35455@harmony.village.org>, Warner Losh 
writes:
> : 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.
> 
> It looks like I understated the savings.  It saves 6.5M for our cut
> down tree (which tries to grab as few of the /bin and /sbin binaries
> as it can).  For the full tree it saves 12-13M (2.1M vs 14.4M).  My
> cut down minimal system went from 14.7M to 8.2M.

I think it's a no brainer then.

Another idea:  Building static and dynamic binaries and storing them in 
separate directories within /usr/obj would allow for one buildworld to 
be used to installworld on larger (static) and smaller (dynamic) 
systems without running buildworld twice.

BTW, it should be painted green.


Regards,                       Phone:  (250)387-8437
Cy Schubert                      Fax:  (250)387-5766
Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team   Internet:  Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca
Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA
Province of BC





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