[Thomas Bushnell BSG] > Um: > > /bin/mount foo:whatever /bin That's a huge administrative hassle. Not only do you have to figure out what programs and libraries /bin/mount depends on so you can make sure they're on your real root partition, but the packaging system doesn't - and shouldn't - do anything to help you keep the two copies of /bin in sync.
You would put up with all *that* for a 6-megabyte savings on your root filesystem? This is another absurdity brought to us all by the Committee for Considering Theoretical Angles Without Bothering to Look at Real Numbers. I should mention that I'm still waiting for your benchmark results on how a drastic reduction in /usr/lib size speeds up the runtime linker. On *any* filesystem, O(n)-lookups or not. (In case you missed it, I explained how to do this benchmark back in http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/05/msg00648.html .) Peter
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