commit a8799a6e8e98be23f442f8d0f9e90330a9e66aea
parent 1c78f9aed902e79821b0f8a5f644d374c131e4f0
Author: Anselm R Garbe <anselm@garbe.us>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:13:13 +0100
added stali description
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+sta[tic] li[nux]
+================
+
+General system design
+---------------------
+
+* binary is primary focus, each executable is statically linked, potentially different executable format than ELF, since ELF is mainly designed to support dynamic linking
+* kernel is a single monolit based on linux, by default no kernel module support
+* system loader is lilo, no other loader supported
+* no initrd initially
+* perhaps later whole system in ramdisk? will see (20h idea)
+* init system should be based on just 1 /etc/rc.{start,stop} script (look at p9 how they do it)
+
+Basic filesystem design
+-----------------------
+Generally /usr will be removed, what a useless directory, for non-base system stuff we might consider /local perhaps
+
+* /bin - all executables go here
+* /bin/kernel (linux kernel)
+* /dev - devices, check if we can avoid udev or what linux requires nowadays, simplest approach would be best
+* /etc - system config/program config/user setup/network setup
+* /etc/rc.{start,stop} (init scripts)
+* /home/root (root's home)
+* /home/* (user home dirs)
+* /include (include)
+* /lib - libraries, when used as devel box, only static libs, potentially
+* /local - perhaps, dunno?
+* /mnt - mounts
+* /proc - linux crap
+* /share - man pages, locales and crap that several libraries ship
+* /sys - linux crap
+* /tmp - obvious
+* /var - spool, run, log, cache
+* /usr -> / (potentially softlink, will see if we can avoid this, mainly for broken packages)
+
+Updating system is simply rsync'ing from distro server.
+
+TBC
+
