From owner-freebsd-small Wed Jul 3 16:45:24 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 7C66337B400 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 16:45:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gehicks.dyndns.org (adsl-20-181-84.asm.bellsouth.net [66.20.181.84]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 109F343E3B for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 16:43:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gehicks@gehicks.dyndns.org) Received: from mac (mac [10.0.0.13]) by gehicks.dyndns.org (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g63NnHZZ001049; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 23:49:33 GMT (envelope-from gehicks@gehicks.dyndns.org) Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 19:41:55 -0400 Subject: Re: Guide to reducing FreeBSD (a.k.a miniBSD :) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v482) Cc: freebsd-small@freebsd.org To: Darren Pilgrim From: W Gerald Hicks In-Reply-To: <3D229963.EF2B40B3@pantherdragon.org> Message-Id: <752D613B-8EDE-11D6-AA48-0030657B5F1E@gehicks.dyndns.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.482) 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 On Wednesday, July 3, 2002, at 02:27 AM, Darren Pilgrim wrote: > 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? It's no more risk than having a corrupted kernel image. At some point your eggs are all in one basket anyway :-) Cheers, Jerry Hicks gehicks@gehicks.dyndns.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message