Comments on: In Other BSDs for 2018/07/28 https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2018/07/28/in-other-bsds-for-2018-07-28/ A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD. Sun, 29 Jul 2018 20:21:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Justin Sherrill https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2018/07/28/in-other-bsds-for-2018-07-28/comment-page-1/#comment-487513 Sun, 29 Jul 2018 20:21:32 +0000 https://www.dragonflydigest.com/?p=21554#comment-487513 Like Felix said, the side effect of that historical wart (which is an excellent way to describe it given the size and form of old disks) is a minimal-boot promise. Scramble the right shared library and it can render an entire computer unbootable, which is super-easy to do on Windows and I daresay possible on Linux.

The converse of that is Aaron LI’s recent initrd work, which smashes a relatively complete system into very little space on DragonFly. It is designed to make encrypted booting easier – a commendable goal – but makes the system more resilient as a side effect.

As for relearning the lessons: https://coreos.com/os/docs/latest/ or https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/server-core/what-is-server-core are arguably examples, though again as side effect.

]]> By: Felix https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2018/07/28/in-other-bsds-for-2018-07-28/comment-page-1/#comment-487512 Sun, 29 Jul 2018 06:31:11 +0000 https://www.dragonflydigest.com/?p=21554#comment-487512 Because having things on separate partitions is only a matter of storage space, as opposed to reliability and flexibility. Oh wait, I forgot, those are alien concepts to modern computing. My bad. Carry on.

]]> By: C https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2018/07/28/in-other-bsds-for-2018-07-28/comment-page-1/#comment-487511 Sun, 29 Jul 2018 03:47:32 +0000 https://www.dragonflydigest.com/?p=21554#comment-487511 What lesson did history teach us about /usr? It was created only because the Unix folks ran out of disk on the tiny storage of the day. It’s a vestigial wart at this point.

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