On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 10:59 -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>>>>> "AT" == Adam Tkac
<atkac(a)redhat.com> writes:
AT> I'm going to ship dump backup utility in FC-7 only in
AT> dynamically linked version (now dump is statically linked).
I suppose the primary reasons for shipping a static dump (and, perhaps
more importantly, restore) is for emergency situations. But these
days I can't imagine many emergency situations that aren't better
solved by booting the rescue media instead of booting single-user.
dump and restore are on the rescue media, aren't they? (Personally I
wish the initrd could be extended to act as a rescue medium, but I
imagine that many people would object to that.)
I've actually been considering the possibility of "installing" the
rescue disk onto a small partition at the end of the disk. Much like
some VARs are apparently doing with their windows recovery disks...
But... hell, why not just put it in /boot? That would make it easier to
keep up to date via an RPM. Hmmm.