Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 02:29:10 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making a dynamically-linked root Message-ID: <20030606072909.GA26354@over-yonder.net> In-Reply-To: <20030606063105.D3B442A8C1@canning.wemm.org> References: <20030605221114.GB51432@over-yonder.net> <20030606063105.D3B442A8C1@canning.wemm.org>
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On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 11:31:05PM -0700 I heard the voice of Peter Wemm, and lo! it spake thus: > > Which is why /rescue/init is on the fallback init path, and can be explicitly > entered at the loader prompt. Right now it is: > kern.init_path: /sbin/init:/sbin/oinit:/sbin/init.bak:/stand/sysinstall > > And nothing would be stopping somebody from typing this at the loader: > set kern.init_path=/rescue/init > and at the shell path prompt, /rescue/sh Oh, absolutely. Given a good /rescue, you can still recover from at least most[0] problems that a static / would let you recover from. And all else being equal, I'm fully of the belief that the increase in potential minor calamities (which some manual /rescue/* intervention can recover) is a small price to pay for some of the gains that a dynamic / gives. I think the downside is minor and full work-around-able (there's a better word for that, I'm just losing my language processing skills); I just don't agree that it's nonexistent. Yes, get the support for a Big Static/Dynamic Switch (tm) in and tested so we can flip it however we want. More generally, yes, I'd agree with get a roadmap for changing the default "sometime", whether that's 5.2 or 5.3 or 6.0. It's a good change; it's just not an entirely side-effect--free change. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet"
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