Making a dynamically-linked root

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <16091.44150.539095.704531 at grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
            Andrew Gallatin <gallatin at cs.duke.edu> writes:
:  > space. Currently (on my x86 box), /bin and /sbin are 32 MB. With
:  > a dynamically linked root (and some pruning of some binaries), the
:  > /bin, /lib, and /sbin come out to 6.1 MB. This should be great for
:  > people with 2.x and 3.x era root partitions that are only about 50
:  > MB.
: 
: Assuming disks cost $1.00 US per gig, this 25% performance penalty
: saves roughly 2.5 cents worth of disk space.  Admittedly, embedded
: environments need the disk savings and might not care about the
: performance penalty.  But that's just another argument for making it
: optional.

I actually have used this to upgrade a system I've been using for a
while.

Warner