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Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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>On Tuesday 24 May 2005 05:11 pm, Jim Northrup wrote: |
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>>but a CF-based or initrd root available when /lib goes to hell is |
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>>an absolute must for supporting fault tolerance. |
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>do you mean like the disk underneath /lib is blown to crap or a bad glibc is |
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>merged ? |
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>if the latter, then the new busybox can help ... just boot with init=/bin/bb |
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>and you should have plenty of tools to recover with |
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>-mike |
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great advice. |
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I've learned whenever md or devfs rework occurs, or the **/sbin tools |
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get rev'd, its foolish to proceed without a rescue nearby. |
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of course bb is a space-saver, but i find myself turning the room upside |
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down for full-static versions of tar, nc and fileutils |
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Jim |
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