Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 09:15:35 +0100 (CET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com>, Andrew Hannam <famzon@bigfoot.com>, small@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: One disk vs Two Disk (was Re: New approach to picobsd) Message-ID: <200001240815.JAA38129@info.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <20000124121624.C2643@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Jan 24, 2000 12:16:24 pm"
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> > * current method of building: the way we do it right now, with crunchgen, ... > Indeed. I don't know how easy it would be to include ports in the > framework, for example. Some ports do work though, and for others i think we need some extensions to crunchgen eg to tell it we need to use a different Makefil > > * incorporating more small, useful tools: recently I ported SASH which > > will be great addition for setups like "router" floppy. > > I think SASH might have great potential in the "first or only" disk. > It would be really nice to have a single disk which could be extended > by further disks if you wanted. That would pave the way to a single > "do it all" PicoBSD approach. yesterday i tried to determine how much room is taken by the various commands on the floppy image (this means after compression). Most small commands end up taking a fraction of a 4KB block (i.e. the "df" output with and without those commands is the same): df, vm, cat, test, msg, swapon, echo, hostname, ln, w, reboot, swapon, du, tail, tee, vnconfig, arp, passwd, mount_nfs, traceroute, pwd_mkdb, dev_mkdb, dev_mkdb, minigzip (apparently, maybe zlib is already in by some other reason) The shell takes (compressed) 36KB. "ee" takes 32KB. So i think all in all sash does not give that much savings over the standard set of commands. We definitely need a small "vi" clone... cheers luigi -----------------------------------+------------------------------------- Luigi RIZZO, luigi@iet.unipi.it . Dip. di Ing. dell'Informazione http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ . Universita` di Pisa TEL/FAX: +39-050-568.533/522 . via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) Mobile +39-347-0373137 -----------------------------------+------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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