Re: HEADS UP: /bin and /sbin are now dynamically linked

From: David O'Brien (dev-null_at_nuxi.com)
Date: 11/24/03

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    Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 09:32:18 -0800
To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>

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    On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 11:00:24AM -0500, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
    > > NO. /rescue was allowed in the system to handle the case of a trashed
    > > file in /lib[exec]. To allow a sysadmin to recover a system from the
    > > same type of mishaps they could before we went to a dynamic /.
    >
    > Ie, let's do things the same way we did in 1994? Other things have
    > changed since then, hard drives and typical root partitions are much
    > bigger, and Tim estimated the total bloat from this as 64k. Maybe
    > earlier, pre-/rescue, you couldn't recover from damaged files in the
    > root partition without a CD/floppy/NFS, it doesn't mean you should not
    > have that capability in /rescue.

    Lets have /rescue/{[s]bin,usr/[s]bin}. Install static copies of every
    thing in /[s]bin and /usr/[s]bin today. That will let you recover in
    even more ways.

    Where does it end if we don't go full-out and install a 2nd copy of every
    binary?

     
    > For a *lot* of people today (like home users), an up-to-date FreeBSD
    > CD or floppy or a second machine to create the disk on may not be
    > handy (and forget about NFS), but a network connection may still be
    > available.

    That network connection would most likely be a M$-Win box in that case,
    which doesn't have an FTP server. Samba, not an FTP client should be in
    /rescue then.
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