From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Wilcox Subject: Re: EXT vs XFS at 80% filled filesystem Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 06:46:22 -0600 Message-ID: <20090520124622.GJ31779@parisc-linux.org> References: <49F9565E.40804@gslab.com> <20090430183450.GB19276@mit.edu> <1242651808.3339.28.camel@alhena> <20090518131755.GJ32019@mit.edu> <1242798210.3457.4.camel@alhena> <20090520105011.GD3523@mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Milind , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com To: Theodore Tso Return-path: Received: from palinux.external.hp.com ([192.25.206.14]:53510 "EHLO mail.parisc-linux.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752412AbZETMqV (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 May 2009 08:46:21 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090520105011.GD3523@mit.edu> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 06:50:11AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > The debian packages ultimately end up building e2fsprogs three times, > with different sets of configure options. One is the standard build, > one is for the restricted-size build for boot floppies (which arguably > we don't need any more since we these days CD-ROM's have plenty of > space, and Debian doesn't support boot floppies any more) and one is > for the static build for e2fsck.static (although the utility of that > one is somewhat dubious given that even the shell is with shared > library, so if the filesystem is corrupted enough that shared libaries > don't work, it's rescue CD-ROM time; the main use for e2fsck.static is > for emergency use when someone running an older version of Debian > needs a newer e2fsck to fix a filesystem corruption). If you install sash, you really do get a statically linked shell: $ ldd /bin/sash ldd: exited with unknown exit code (126) $ file /bin/sash /bin/sash: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, for GNU/Linux 2.6.8, stripped -- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step."