From owner-freebsd-small Tue Jul 2 23:54:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4111537B400 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 23:54:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spork.pantherdragon.org (spork.pantherdragon.org [206.29.168.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D67D143E0A for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 23:54:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dmp@pantherdragon.org) Received: from spark.techno.pagans (spark.techno.pagans [4.61.202.145]) by spork.pantherdragon.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4A43471DA; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 23:54:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pantherdragon.org (speck.techno.pagans [172.21.42.2]) by spark.techno.pagans (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE439FDA0; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 23:27:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3D229963.EF2B40B3@pantherdragon.org> Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 23:27:47 -0700 From: Darren Pilgrim X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: W Gerald Hicks Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Guide to reducing FreeBSD (a.k.a miniBSD :) References: <38E3A09A-8E42-11D6-BBF1-0030657B5F1E@bellsouth.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG W Gerald Hicks wrote: > > On Wednesday, July 3, 2002, at 12:10 AM, Darren Pilgrim wrote: > [snips] > > As long as you realize that if a /bin or /sbin program can't run due > > to missing/corrupt libraries that you may or may not be able to even > > boot single-user. At the very least, /bin/sh, /sbin/mount, /sbin/init, > > and /sbin/fsck should be static builds. > > > > Libraries residing in a linked-in MD_ROOT_IMAGE are available whenever > the kernel is > but it still seems more space efficient for that small handful of > critical files to be crunch-linked. Those libraries can still get corrupted. Using dynamic binaries adds a point of failure. It's not much more space taken for just those few programs, so why increase the risk? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message