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To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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Subject: Re: The shared /bin and /sbin bikeshed
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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.
> 
> 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.

ROOTBIN_SHARED?


Nate


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