On Sat, 15 Dec 2012 11:18:25 +0100 Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > It should be moving in the other direction for stability reasons and > > busybox is no full answer. > > > > On OpenBSD which has the benefit of userland being part of it. All > > the critical single user binaries are in root and built statically > > as much as possible, maximising system reliability no matter the > > custom requirements or packages. > > until a flaw is found in one of the libs used and all those > statically linked binaries are in danger. Well done! How unlikely and is why you have test systems. Other problem this protects against are far less predictable. There is even a distro that attempts to statically build everything. It's worth reading that distros arguments for doing so in any case. Ch3.1 of fhs-2.3. _______________________________________________________________________ Rationale The primary concern used to balance these considerations, which favor placing many things on the root filesystem, is the goal of keeping root as small as reasonably possible. For several reasons, it is desirable to keep the root filesystem small: .... Disk errors that corrupt data on the root filesystem are a greater problem than errors on any other partition. A small root filesystem is less prone to corruption as the result of a system crash. ________________________________________________________________________
