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>3.1. Analysis</H1
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>One of the drawbacks in the prototype phase of the project was that
the diskset was not all that useful. The only commands that worked were
the ones built into the BASH shell. We could improve our root disk by
installing commands like <B
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> and so on. Unfortunately, we
are short on space. The current root disk has no shared libraries so each
utility would have to be statically-linked just like the BASH shell. A lot
of big binaries together with a static shell will rapidly exceed the tiny
1.44M of available disk space. So our main goal in this phase should be to
maximize space savings on the root disk and pave the way for expanded
functionality in the next phase.</P
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