Date: Thu, 17 Aug 95 11:40:57 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: chuckr@Glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) Cc: jiho@sierra.net, freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: gnumalloc Message-ID: <9508171740.AA12943@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950817132329.3635D-100000@espresso.eng.umd.edu> from "Chuck Robey" at Aug 17, 95 01:26:49 pm
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> If I got this next point wrong, I'm surprised, but I thought Jim was > making a case for not having such areaa of non-shared tools, like /slib. > Nor an /sbin. Didn't he say he'd link init shared? I agree on maximal > sharing, but I _do_ leave myself an emergency recovery method. Jim was > saying that if he needed an emergency recovery, he'd dump the whole > installation and rebuild. I think that's overkill. I think you need root level system binaries to the point that /usr *can* be mounted seperately, even if it isn't the default case. I didn't get anything from Jim's post that would imply he thought otherwise, only that the argument of "what if this goes wrong AND this goes wrong AND this goes wrong..." is complicated to the point of a reinstall being a better option than worrying about contingencies to the point of losing sight of the real problem. Its the case of "don't optimize the boot code" or more colloquailly, "don't miss the forest for the trees". Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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