Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 19:00:58 -0800 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The shared /bin and /sbin bikeshed Message-ID: <200011090301.eA931Pv26563@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 08 Nov 2000 19:49:36 MST." <200011090249.TAA35455@harmony.village.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
In message <200011090249.TAA35455@harmony.village.org>, Warner Losh writes: > : I have a patch that makes /bin and /sbin optionally non-static. For > : small systems that have / and /usr on the same file system, you can > : save about 5M-6M of disk space by making /bin and /sbin shared. > > It looks like I understated the savings. It saves 6.5M for our cut > down tree (which tries to grab as few of the /bin and /sbin binaries > as it can). For the full tree it saves 12-13M (2.1M vs 14.4M). My > cut down minimal system went from 14.7M to 8.2M. I think it's a no brainer then. Another idea: Building static and dynamic binaries and storing them in separate directories within /usr/obj would allow for one buildworld to be used to installworld on larger (static) and smaller (dynamic) systems without running buildworld twice. BTW, it should be painted green. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200011090301.eA931Pv26563>