Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:46:25 +0100 From: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8.0-RELEASE -> -STABLE and size of / Message-ID: <20100129104624.GA13472@ei.bzerk.org> 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 typed: > On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, Ruben de Groot wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 01:23:28AM +0000, Adrian Wontroba typed: > > > I concur that the 235 MB size of an amd64 8.0 kernel is a bit of a > > > surprise. An i386 kernel is a mere 135 MB. IMO increasing the > > > sysinstall default root slice size for at least amd64 would be a > > > good thing. > > > > 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 don't think you need them unless remote debugging and in that case you > are multiuser (I would have thought anyway). > > If they went into /usr then /boot could remain slim. But what if you have /usr on a gmirror, glabel, zfs filesystem or any other device that is not compiled in your kernel? Sure you can build a custom kernel, but I would expect a lot of questions, frustrations and footshooting from such a change. I think increasing / (again) would be the least painfull. Ruben
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