Re: Shared /bin and /sbin

2000-04-17 Thread Roger Marquis
Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I much prefer the FreeBSD way of doing things. There should be only one lib -- /usr/lib, and things critical to booting should be compiled static. Agreed, multiple dynamic OS library paths would also violate the KIS principle. Obviously people with

Re: Shared /bin and /sbin

2000-03-31 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000 21:29:50 +0200, Ollivier Robert wrote: copies of libc in /sbin and /bin. I was thinking about building, for this system only, /bin and /sbin dynamic. Has anybody ever done this? Ask Bruce. He used to have a completely dynamic system a while ago... Bruce Evans? A

Re: Shared /bin and /sbin

2000-03-31 Thread Wes Peters
Ollivier Robert wrote: According to Warner Losh: copies of libc in /sbin and /bin. I was thinking about building, for this system only, /bin and /sbin dynamic. Has anybody ever done this? Ask Bruce. He used to have a completely dynamic system a while ago... Whatever happened to the

Re: Shared /bin and /sbin

2000-03-31 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wes Peters writes: : Whatever happened to the idea of putting the shared libs for /bin and : /sbin in /lib? People are afraid that it would mean more disk space used on /, not less. They worry that shared libraries are not robust enough to cope and your system will

Re: Shared /bin and /sbin

2000-03-31 Thread Matthew Dillon
:People are afraid that it would mean more disk space used on /, not :less. They worry that shared libraries are not robust enough to cope :and your system will be completely useless if one file (/lib/libc.so) :goes away. They also worry about duplicated disk usage between :/usr/lib/libc.so

Re: Shared /bin and /sbin

2000-03-30 Thread Ville-Pertti Keinonen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Warner Losh) writes: I have a system that has one file system on it (eg everything is on /). I'm finding that a lot of space is wasted on the multiple static copies of libc in /sbin and /bin. I was thinking about building, for this system only, /bin and /sbin dynamic.

Re: Shared /bin and /sbin

2000-03-30 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to Warner Losh: copies of libc in /sbin and /bin. I was thinking about building, for this system only, /bin and /sbin dynamic. Has anybody ever done this? Ask Bruce. He used to have a completely dynamic system a while ago... -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=-

Shared /bin and /sbin

2000-03-29 Thread Warner Losh
I have a system that has one file system on it (eg everything is on /). I'm finding that a lot of space is wasted on the multiple static copies of libc in /sbin and /bin. I was thinking about building, for this system only, /bin and /sbin dynamic. Has anybody ever done this? What are the