Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 15:53:35 -0600 (MDT) From: "Ryan Sommers" <ryans@gamersimpact.com> To: "Jose M Rodriguez" <josemi@freebsd.jazztel.es> Cc: David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca> Subject: Re: 5.3: /stand/ versus /rescue/ ? Message-ID: <37655.128.101.36.205.1097099615.squirrel@128.101.36.205> In-Reply-To: <200410062114.27791.josemi@freebsd.jazztel.es> References: <20041003124353.29822.qmail@web54005.mail.yahoo.com> <50044.208.4.77.15.1097084904.squirrel@208.4.77.15> <200410061413.51459.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <200410062114.27791.josemi@freebsd.jazztel.es>
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Jose M Rodriguez said: > On Wednesday 06 October 2004 20:13, John Baldwin wrote: >> On Wednesday 06 October 2004 01:48 pm, Ryan Sommers wrote: >> > Is there any reason why we need /stand after the install process? >> > As part of the post-install configuration would it be possible to >> > have /stand removed? >> >> Prior to /rescue it was (ab)used as a sort of /rescue type of thing. >> Now that we have /rescue, it probably can be removed after the >> installation is complete. > > Take care of: > - it only takes ~2 MB of your rootfs. About a year ago a lot of people didn't want /rescue because of a lack of space in some of the older root slices. This would free up a little bit of room from a lot of programs that are likely duplicated in /rescue. Getting rid of /stand might make a little difference. > - I'm not sure that /rescue/tar can work without a tmp dir I'll look into that. > and this is really needed for initdiskless oper (/stand/cpio). >From looking at the initdiskless script, is there any reason we couldn't add cpio to /rescue and use it from there? From what I saw the only references to /stand were /stand/cpio and /stand/gzip, and gzip is already in /rescue. > - can sysinstall unlink his own binary before restart? Couldn't we restart the post-install from /usr/sbin/sysinstall? I'm not too familiar with the installation code. -- Ryan Sommers ryans@gamersimpact.com
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