From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 19 02:03:06 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6920416A4CE for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 02:03:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from node15.coopprint.com (node15.cooperativeprinting.com [208.4.77.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D63BF43D31 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 02:03:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ryans@gamersimpact.com) Received: (qmail 94861 invoked by uid 0); 19 Oct 2004 02:01:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.5?) (63.231.165.205) by node15.coopprint.com with SMTP; 19 Oct 2004 02:01:55 -0000 Message-ID: <417475E2.8020202@gamersimpact.com> Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 21:03:14 -0500 From: Ryan Sommers User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (Windows/20040803) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jose M Rodriguez References: <20041013172834.81984.qmail@web54008.mail.yahoo.com> <65140.208.4.77.15.1098123461.squirrel@208.4.77.15> <41746CC6.4030407@yahoo.com> <200410190345.20487.josemi@freebsd.jazztel.es> In-Reply-To: <200410190345.20487.josemi@freebsd.jazztel.es> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Rob cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I deleted /stand/, but I need it again for diskless boot... X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 02:03:06 -0000 Jose M Rodriguez wrote: > If You try to path /etc/rc.d/initdiskless, try not remove *.cpio.gz > >expand using /stand, but add *.tar expand using /bin/pax. > >You may also try some auto detection and use what is present >between /stand/cpio, /stand/gzip, /rescue/tar, /rescue/gzip ... > >Don't try moving gzip/libgzip from /usr to rootfs. It's really a big >change. > /rescue/* aren't the right tools for the job in my opinion. Neither are /stand/*. I posted this to arch@ [1] and between that and this thread, among others on current@, the overwhelming majority of responses have been to get rid of /stand. I'm not sure I understand your argument for leaving /stand as part of the root filesystem; other than as you say your 250gb drives don't mind the extra 3.5mb. In my opinion it's useless for both diskless and regular systems, with the exception of 2% of it's space. It's not updated as part of world, which means no bug fixes get populated to it. It's a crunchgen binary which means trying to fix small bugs in single programs either means rebuilding the binary or replacing that hardlink with an individual binary. [1] http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=10365+0+current/freebsd-arch -- Ryan Sommers ryans@gamersimpact.com