From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 29 12:00:24 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AA7110656C9 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:00:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19B9F8FC14 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:00:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (ppp121-45-156-224.lns6.adl6.internode.on.net [121.45.156.224]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o0TC068C082637 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:30:06 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Ruben de Groot Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:29:51 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <20100122162155.GG3917@e-Gitt.NET> <201001232244.03752.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20100129104624.GA13472@ei.bzerk.org> In-Reply-To: <20100129104624.GA13472@ei.bzerk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1942142.mvhWgjJyHj"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201001292230.01867.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -1.7 () AWL,BAYES_00,RDNS_DYNAMIC X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8.0-RELEASE -> -STABLE and size of / X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:00:24 -0000 --nextPart1942142.mvhWgjJyHj Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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=20 debugging. Since the debugging either happens after the fact (analysing a core) or=20 remotely (and the remote system would have /usr mounted) I don't see=20 that they need to go into /boot. =2D-=20 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 --nextPart1942142.mvhWgjJyHj Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBLYs3B5ZPcIHs/zowRAoN9AJ424SKLfAYP6oQJnanXBJdVHgE7+ACeL1kK +my/MNu/JldMoWPY2A52OFo= =7TXi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1942142.mvhWgjJyHj--