From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Nov 10 8:51: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C76137B4C5 for ; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 08:51:05 -0800 (PST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA09425; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 09:47:04 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr08.primenet.com(206.165.6.208) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAYwaars; Fri Nov 10 09:46:52 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA20567; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 09:50:43 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200011101650.JAA20567@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: The shared /bin and /sbin bikeshed To: dillon@earth.backplane.com (Matt Dillon) Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 16:50:43 +0000 (GMT) Cc: peter@netplex.com.au (Peter Wemm), imp@village.org (Warner Losh), arch@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200011091909.eA9J9wM10639@earth.backplane.com> from "Matt Dillon" at Nov 09, 2000 11:09:58 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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. I had a similar experience with FreeBSD, when the kernel.ko stuff went in, and when I accidently trashed /kernel. If there is a single point of failure, there's a single point of failure, and avoiding the /lib + /usr/lib model won't get rid of the fact. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message