Re: dynamic /bin /sbin

[Richard Coleman <richardcoleman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Garance A Drosihn wrote:

> > So give me some good reasons not to stay static?
>
>
> I believe that freebsd-current is going to dynamic versions
> mainly so some dynamically-loaded options (such as pam) could
> be made to work correctly.
>
> It has added /rescue (similar to NetBSD's), which has a few
> key programs that would be useful in a disk-disaster situation.
> We're still in the middle of arguing over just how minimal that
> collection should be.  On my 5.x-current system, that /rescue
> is 3.7 meg.  On the same system, /bin and /sbin are still
> statically-linked.  At the moment, the statically-linked /bin
> is 8 meg and /sbin is 26 meg.

You also have to link statically if you want nsswitch.conf to work 
correctly for programs in /bin and /sbin.  For those who remember their 
history, that was the reason that Sun switched their versions of these 
directories to dynamic many years ago.

Switching to dynamic and adding /rescue makes good sense.

Richard Coleman