From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 8 9:37:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from spirit.jaded.net (spirit.jaded.net [216.94.113.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B374037BA9C for ; Mon, 8 May 2000 09:37:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@spirit.jaded.net) Received: (from dan@localhost) by spirit.jaded.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA02361; Mon, 8 May 2000 12:37:47 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 12:37:47 -0400 From: Dan Moschuk To: Matthew Jacob Cc: Sheldon Hearn , Matthew Dillon , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/18312: FreeBSD System Recovery -- mt not statically linked Message-ID: <20000508123747.C1685@spirit.jaded.net> References: <61326.957793693@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from mjacob@feral.com on Mon, May 08, 2000 at 08:42:33AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG | > > There's not much point statically linking mt if it's sitting in | > > /usr/bin. On the face of it it does seem a good candidate to move | > > to /bin. | > | > Given that having things move around in the base system carries with it | > varying degrees of pain, can you guys just explain why this is actually | > necessary? Didn't someone point out a way to use restore in the absence | > of mt? | | Yes, that was me. But maybe they're /usr that they want to restore isn't in | dump(8) format. I dunno- this is why I asked. It seems to me on the face of it | a reasonable thing to have- basic device manipulation available w/o /usr. But | there's no particular end to the number of things you *could* want to be | availble if someone takes a Mossberger to your /usr. So, I'm of two minds | about this. Instead of going through pains of moving everything around, why not build a static mt on the rescue disk only? -- Dan Moschuk (TFreak!dan@freebsd.org) "Don't get even -- get odd!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message