Bill Vermillion wrote: >>>>1) Much smaller /bin and /sbin. On i386, /bin and /sbin are 33 MB >>>>static. >>>> Dynamically linked, they are only 4 MB. > > > I don't think saving that little space on the / partition is as > important as having everthing in sbin being able to stand alone no > matter what is corrupted. If you need to recover from a corrupted system, why is it so important to use /bin or /sbin, when /rescue is there for that exact purpose? I think it is much more important that nsswitch.conf work properly. But I think the time for these discussions is passed. I think at this stage the important thing is to make it work correctly. Richard Coleman richardcoleman_at_mindspring.comReceived on Sun Nov 16 2003 - 19:54:51 UTC
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