On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 03:53:35PM -0600, Ryan Sommers wrote: > Jose M Rodriguez said: > > On Wednesday 06 October 2004 20:13, John Baldwin wrote: > >> On Wednesday 06 October 2004 01:48 pm, Ryan Sommers wrote: > >> > Is there any reason why we need /stand after the install process? > >> > As part of the post-install configuration would it be possible to > >> > have /stand removed? > >> > >> Prior to /rescue it was (ab)used as a sort of /rescue type of thing. > >> Now that we have /rescue, it probably can be removed after the > >> installation is complete. > > > > Take care of: > > - it only takes ~2 MB of your rootfs. > > About a year ago a lot of people didn't want /rescue because of a lack of > space in some of the older root slices. This would free up a little bit of > room from a lot of programs that are likely duplicated in /rescue. Getting > rid of /stand might make a little difference. > > > - I'm not sure that /rescue/tar can work without a tmp dir > > I'll look into that. If this is a problem, you might see if it's a problem with bsdtar since /rescue/tar is currently gnutar. We're going to want to do that anyway if we're going to remove gnutar from the tree anyway. > > and this is really needed for initdiskless oper (/stand/cpio). > > >From looking at the initdiskless script, is there any reason we couldn't > add cpio to /rescue and use it from there? From what I saw the only > references to /stand were /stand/cpio and /stand/gzip, and gzip is already > in /rescue. If you add bsdtar, you get cpio support. > > - can sysinstall unlink his own binary before restart? > > Couldn't we restart the post-install from /usr/sbin/sysinstall? I'm not > too familiar with the installation code. It's always safe to delete an open file so long as you don't need to reopen it. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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