Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 12:43:57 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@nsu.ru> Cc: cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>, Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release Makefile Message-ID: <XFMail.20021219124357.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20021219002636.GA99816@regency.nsu.ru>
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On 19-Dec-2002 Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 12:27:44PM -0800, Nate Lawson wrote: >> On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, David E. O'Brien wrote: >> > obrien 2002/12/17 12:19:37 PST >> > >> > Modified files: >> > release Makefile >> > Log: >> > Split files into 1.44MB chunks rather than a tiny, high-ftp overhead size. >> >> It's hard to remember why that size was chosen. I think it was to fit on >> 320 KB 5.25" floppies as well as be groupable to fit on 720 (3) or 1.44 >> (6) floppies. Good to see it go. > > AFAIK, 200K made it possible to fit pretty well on both 1.2M 5.25" DS/HD > floppies (4 of them) and 1.44M 3.5" DS/HD (5 of them). Making chunks > 1.44M would break ability to install from 1.2M diskettes. I'd rather > prefer leave it as it was (200K). People are going to install FreeBSD using 5.25" floppies? Our boot floppies don't fit on those disks, so you wouldn't be able to boot in the first place. Secondly, you would need 232 / 4 = 58 good floppies. :) When installing my alpha from CD, having the bits broke up actually results in poorer performance. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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