Well, we were promised that the performance problems with dynamically
linked binaries would be solved (before switching to a dynamic /bin?), I 
guess
they were not.

    -- Lennart

Reinier Jonker wrote:

> Recently, /rescue was added due to the usage of dynamically linked 
> executables in /bin and /sbin. I noticed the (statically linked) 
> programs in /rescue are a bit faster than those in /bin and /sbin. Is 
> there a good reason not to use those? Prepending /rescue to PATH 
> appears to work fine.
>