From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Nov 9 11:23:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D61FE37B479 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 11:23:38 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id eA9JNSV01166; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 11:23:28 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 11:23:28 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Matt Dillon Cc: Peter Wemm , Warner Losh , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The shared /bin and /sbin bikeshed Message-ID: <20001109112328.T5112@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <200011091223.eA9CNQW26294@mobile.wemm.org> <200011091909.eA9J9wM10639@earth.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <200011091909.eA9J9wM10639@earth.backplane.com>; from dillon@earth.backplane.com on Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 11:09:58AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Matt Dillon [001109 11:11] wrote: > > I'd recommend against the linux /lib + /usr/lib model, it's a big > mess. I don't see much of a point in cutting the size of /bin and > /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 > /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. root on a Linux box is unable to do squat when the machine is almost out of memory because he can't map in /lib/libc.so to run 'ps' or even another copy of bash. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message