Apparently there was some fun with prelink breaking everything in rawhide recently: <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=509655>. I didn't notice, because like Pete Zaitcev says in the comments, removing prelink is one of the first things I do. I see it as adding unnecessary complexity and fragility, and it makes forensic verification difficult. Binaries can't be verified without being modified, which is far from ideal. And the error about dependencies having changed since prelinking is disturbingly frequent. On the other hand, smart people have worked on it. It's very likely that those smart people know things I don't. I can't find any good numbers anywhere demonstrating the concrete benefits provided by prelink. Is there data out there? Pretty charts and graphs would be nice. The only things I've been able to find are old and not very impressive: <http://crast.us/james/articles/prelink.php> <http://smackerelofopinion.blogspot.com/2009/06/does-prelinking-speed-up-boot-times.html> <http://reallylongword.org/prelink-2/> Even assuming a benefit, the price may not be worth it. SELinux gives a definite performance hit, but it's widely accepted as being part of the price to pay for added security. Enabling prelink seems to fall on the other side of the line. What's the justification? -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx> Senior Systems Architect Cyberinfrastructure Labs Computing & Information Technology Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
