Fw: /rescue

[David O'Brien]

On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 11:17:25AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> : It was also felt this patch puts way too much into /stand -- like vi
> : (rather than edit) and dhclient for instance.  /stand should be just
> : enough to recover a system by a *skilled* person.
> 
> I disagree.  I think it keeps a good amount of stuff in there.  Sure,
> I can do an echo * rather than an ls, but the binary is so small and

You're going to an extreme -- I didn't mention ls, I mentioned nvi (about
1MB static).

> disk space so cheap it makes no sense to have to force it so that only

Don't forget we aren't talking about the size of the *entire* disk, the
size of / is the issue (especially for source upgrades from 4.x) .  Maybe
I should change sysinstall to use a 2GB / and have it include /usr --
that certainly makes things easier for a dynamic /.