Removal of /stand Directory
Jose M Rodriguez
josemi at freebsd.jazztel.es
Tue Oct 26 03:27:30 PDT 2004
El Martes, 26 de Octubre de 2004 08:56, Tim Kientzle escribió:
> Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote:
> > On Sat, 23 Oct 2004, Ryan Sommers wrote:
> >> - Move gzip to /bin and use /bin/gzip and /bin/pax to handle
> >> compressed archives (see arch@ thread for patch). Overall is a
> >> savings in /.
> >
> > Frankly, having a file pointing to an inode with 135 links in /bin
> > sort of scares me. Putting a stand-alone version of gzip in /bin
> > isn't going to save any space in /.
>
> Ryan is proposing moving /usr/bin/gzip to /bin/gzip.
> /usr/bin/gzip only has 4 links: gzip, gunzip, gzcat, and zcat.
>
I recall that gzip comes from /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gzip and is GPL
licensed.
I can't recall of any /usr/src/gnu/bin. This may be an issue?
I still think that add an aditional support for *.tar files
(uncompressed) and some flexibility to initdiskless must be of
interest.
Also, I can recall that cpio/tar/pax have all support for tarball format
auto-detection and mayor cipo/tar format support.
If someone can confirm:
- prefered format/supported formats [ustar]
- pax/cpio/tar commands to use (options)
I'll work a patch to initdiskless to test.
IMHO this must be take in account.
- May be use to expand /etc from a fresh mfs. No passwd file reachable.
- May be use from a ro rootfs. No tmpfile use.
- Default expand owned by root:wheel (0:0). Use mtree after. Use other
file distribution systems after.
- The actual default is /stand/cpio --extract -d [4.x]
Also, guest about counterparts for tarball creation must be of interest.
--
josemi
> I think you're confusing this with /rescue/gzip, which is a very
> different thing, indeed.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tim
>
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