Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 14:36:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/i386 drivers.conf Message-ID: <200207241836.g6OIa5pW056310@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <200207241828.g6OIS2r27386@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> References: <20020724181216.GA8321@sunbay.com> <200207241828.g6OIS2r27386@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za>
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<<On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 20:28:02 +0200 (SAT), John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za> said: > We can save some space (I think) by not gziping the individual help > files, but leave them unzipped. Then the final gzip of the whole image > should be able to do a better job of it. But I doubt if it will give > us enough room for nfsclient.ko and msdosfs.ko. :-/ Maybe we should > start a third floppy which contains the "lesser used" stuff. No I'm > not volunteering. :-) As I believe I pointed out several months ago, linking all of the kernel modules together into one big module saves a substantial amount of space (all of those dynamic linking tables which reference the same external symbols for most every module). -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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