From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 19 09:17:26 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C82A16A4CE for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 09:17:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 626AA43F75 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 09:17:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: from apollo.backplane.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) hAJHHPiF000651; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 09:17:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.12.9p2/8.12.9/Submit) id hAJHHOx6000650; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 09:17:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 09:17:24 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <200311191717.hAJHHOx6000650@apollo.backplane.com> To: Gunther Nikl References: <200311182307.hAIN7Wpm000717@dyson.jdyson.com> <20031118164905.R35009@pooker.samsco.home> <200311190226.hAJ2QLtT096067@apollo.backplane.com> <20031119094746.GA84418@lorien.int.gecko.de> cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unfortunate dynamic linking for everything X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 17:17:26 -0000 : Don't you think that people are able to change defaults if they think : thats appropriate? : :> Prior to that Jordan had bumped the root partition size to 100MB :> in 1.98.2.3 in March 2001. It was 50MB before then, which is too :> small even for 4.x. : : Hm, then why do I have still room on my 50MB root partition? : : $ df : Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on : /dev/vinum/root 49583 29040 16577 64% / : : Thats enough for installworld (if softupdates are turned off) : : Gunther Try running installkernel and see what happens when it tries to rename the old kernel and modules and install a new one. Or try installing a kernel.debug (which is 14MB+) instead of a kernel. The point here is that just because you can barely squeeze the system into 50MB doesn't mean it's a good idea to. It might work for a very narrow use pattern, but it will create terrible problems if you ever tried to expand your use and the system defaults have to cover more then just generic users reasonably. This is why the default is no longer 50MB. -Matt Matthew Dillon