From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Nov 9 22:43:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (earth.elinux.com.sg [203.120.99.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEA5037B479 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 22:43:30 -0800 (PST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) id eAA6gsC01786; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 14:42:54 +0800 (SGT) (envelope-from grog) Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 14:42:54 +0800 From: Greg Lehey To: Warner Losh Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The shared /bin and /sbin bikeshed Message-ID: <20001110144254.B1686@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> References: <200011090155.SAA35024@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200011090155.SAA35024@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 06:55:29PM -0700 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 8 November 2000 at 18:55:29 -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 I have opinions on this matter (of course :-), but I don't have time to discuss them. Once the shed is painted, could you post a summary? Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message