Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 12:24:54 -0500 From: Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8.0-RELEASE -> -STABLE and size of / Message-ID: <20100123172454.GA68693@pit.databus.com> In-Reply-To: <201001232244.03752.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <20100122162155.GG3917@e-Gitt.NET> <20100123012328.GA3296@swelter.hanley.stade.co.uk> <20100123114209.GA21457@ei.bzerk.org> <201001232244.03752.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 10:43:49PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, Ruben de Groot wrote: > > To be a little more precise: it's not the >kernel< that is so big. > > It's all the (mostly not needed) modules and symbol files that fill > > up / > > Maybe they could be put somewhere else.. I have a stupid question: Why are modules built and installed for things that are already included in the kernel? That would seem (I haven't looked) to be a simple change that would both speed up builds and shrink /boot/kernel. -- Barney Wolff I never met a computer I didn't like.
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