Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 15:04:54 +0900 From: Rob <spamrefuse@yahoo.com> To: Ryan Sommers <ryans@gamersimpact.com>, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: I deleted /stand/, but I need it again for diskless boot... Message-ID: <4174AE86.5000906@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <417475E2.8020202@gamersimpact.com> 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> <417475E2.8020202@gamersimpact.com>
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Ryan Sommers wrote:
> 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.
Sorry, I have changed my mind concerning patching my 5.3 system wrt.
this /stand vs. /rescue issue. I'd rather wait until this discussion
is resolved and moreover, until 5.3 has become STABLE and 6.0 has
become CURRENT.
For now, I will populate the /conf/base directory with the plain files
(not using zipped cpio-archives), in which case I do not need /stand.
The disk space used is then:
324K using etc and var as cpio.gz archives in /conf/base
1.8M using etc and var as plain files in /conf/base
2.3M /stand
*.cpio.gz + /stand = 2.6M
plain files - /stand = 1.8M
For now, with 5.3, I'll go for the plain files without /stand.
I can wait until 6-Stable for this to get reduced to 324K :).
Rob.
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