Date: 20 Feb 2001 14:15:04 +0100 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Luigi Rizzo <luigi@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/picobsd/build Makefile.mfs Message-ID: <xzplmr1jy1z.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Luigi Rizzo's message of "Tue, 20 Feb 2001 02:28:21 %2B0100 (CET)" References: <200102200128.CAA37354@info.iet.unipi.it>
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Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it> writes: > > I'm in a plane right now, so I can't look at the change, but I had > > been wondering for some time whether it wouldn't be better to make > > only a minimal subset of device nodes in the fs image, and run MAKEDEV > > or similar after booting. That would save a lot of space. > unfortunately not with the standard MAKEDV: [...] You could write a short Perl script (or C program) that scans a directory and generates C code (using only mkdir(2), mknod(2), symlink(2) and chown(2)) that recreates the device nodes. I suspect the resulting code, when crunched, would consume less space than the device nodes themselves. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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