Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 10:42:10 -0300 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@tcoip.com.br> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making a dynamically-linked root Message-ID: <3EDDF732.1060606@tcoip.com.br> In-Reply-To: <3EDD81A4.B6F83135@mindspring.com> References: <20030603113927.I71313@cvs.imp.ch> <16092.35144.948752.554975@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20030603115432.EGLB13328.out002.verizon.net@kokeb.ambesa.net> <20030603122226.BGPM11703.pop018.verizon.net@kokeb.ambesa.net> <3EDD81A4.B6F83135@mindspring.com>
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Terry Lambert wrote:
> Mike Makonnen wrote:
>
>>2. What happens if I hose one of the libraries?
>
> I always love this one. The same thing that happens if you hose
> your shell, any of your kernel modules get corruptes, you hose
> your kernel, you hose any of the files that the boot loader looks
> in before actually loading the kernel, you hose init, or you hose
> mount, or any one of dozens of other files.
>
> It's not like linking shared gives you any kind of statistically
> significant increase in the number of single points of failure or
> the overall MTBF for the overall system.
It doesn't? If /bin/sh is hosed, I use /bin/csh. If /bin/ls is hosed, I
use 'echo *'. If /boot/kernel/kernel gets hosed, I use
/boot/kernel.old/kernel. If a module gets hosed, I don't load it or use
the one in kernel.old. And so forth.
If libc gets hosed, *ALL* programs stop working.
So, I did not have any single point of failure for single file
corruption before. Now I do. But you claim there was not significant
increase, statistically speaking. Could you please point out what am I
missing?
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