Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:29:51 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8.0-RELEASE -> -STABLE and size of / Message-ID: <201001292230.01867.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20100129104624.GA13472@ei.bzerk.org> References: <20100122162155.GG3917@e-Gitt.NET> <201001232244.03752.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20100129104624.GA13472@ei.bzerk.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Fri, 29 Jan 2010, Ruben de Groot wrote: > > 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. You don't need debug symbols to boot a kernel, you only need them when debugging. Since the debugging either happens after the fact (analysing a core) or remotely (and the remote system would have /usr mounted) I don't see that they need to go into /boot. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBLYs3B5ZPcIHs/zowRAoN9AJ424SKLfAYP6oQJnanXBJdVHgE7+ACeL1kK +my/MNu/JldMoWPY2A52OFo= =7TXi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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