From: Jonathan Magid (jem@SunSite.unc.edu)
Date: 10/06/92


From: jem@SunSite.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid)
Subject: Re: How small a root partition can I get away with?
Date: 6 Oct 1992 12:12:13 GMT

In article <Qeo4aoa00WAJ18Ruoz@andrew.cmu.edu> geek+@CMU.EDU (Brian E. Gallew) writes:
>Another consideration in determining root size is whether or not you
>will try to stay on the bleeding edge of Linux development. Remember,
>/lib will generally have to be part of /, not mounted, so you have to
>allow for two or three incarnations of the shared libraries!
>

With the advent of share libraries with jmp tables, this should
no longer be a problem, especially as old executable are gradually
replaced with their jmp-table equivalents. New libraries should
not break any such executables. That was the whole idea.

jem.

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