Things to remove from /rescue

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <20030725205806.GB39268 at dragon.nuxi.com>
            "David O'Brien" <obrien at freebsd.org> writes:
: On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 12:06:52PM -0700, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 11:59:33AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
: > > On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 08:25:32PM -0400, Mike Makonnen wrote:
: > ...
: > > > base system. IMO, /rescue should be the absolute essentials _only_.
: > > > Instead of theorizing reasons why someone might need ipfw and friends,
: > > > why don't we wait until we get a bug report about a specific situation
: > > > in which it was needed before we put it back in.
: > > 
: > > Thank you for expressing this so well.  I do think we should wait for
: > > PR's telling real experiences rather than theorizing so much in the "what
: > > if"'s.
: > 
: > then just nuke everything from /rescue and waif for PR's... :)
: 
: {\sarcasm
:     Or just go back to /[s]bin being statically linked and create
:     /[s]bin.dynamic and those that want that can put it first in their
:     path.
: }

cruncgen'd binary uses a lot less space than a static directory full
of copies of libc.

Warner