From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 14 10:35:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3305C37B401 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:35:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from softweyr.com (softweyr.com [209.63.227.49]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 774D343E42 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:35:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from homer.softweyr.com ([204.68.178.39] helo=softweyr.com) by softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 18COpC-000JfD-00; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 11:34:46 -0700 Message-ID: <3DD3ECC1.17484EBD@softweyr.com> Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:34:41 -0800 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Rabson Cc: "M. Warner Losh" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Shrinking /(s)bin: A Proposal References: <3DD03D9A.6090805@acm.org> <20021113.234516.77421925.imp@bsdimp.com> <200211140938.52546.dfr@nlsystems.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug Rabson wrote: > > On Thursday 14 November 2002 6:45 am, M. Warner Losh wrote: > > > > % make NOSHARED=NO buildworld > > > > No patches necessary. We do this all the time at work, and it works > > fabulously. I do this for disk based systems that have / and /usr on > > the same file system too. > > To do it right for split root/usr installations requires a few patches > though. The rtld and the libs required for /[s]bin need to move to / > and compat symlinks created from /usr. A suitable crunchgen'ed binary > for /recover would be useful too. Time to bring back /lib? -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message