Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 10:04:51 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za> To: wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/i386 drivers.conf Message-ID: <200208050804.g7584pu63265@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> In-Reply-To: <200207241836.g6OIa5pW056310@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> from Garrett Wollman at "Jul 24, 2002 02:36:05 pm"
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Garrett, > > We can save some space (I think) by not gziping the individual help > > files, but leave them unzipped. Then the final gzip of the whole image > > should be able to do a better job of it. But I doubt if it will give > > us enough room for nfsclient.ko and msdosfs.ko. :-/ Maybe we should > > start a third floppy which contains the "lesser used" stuff. No I'm > > not volunteering. :-) > > As I believe I pointed out several months ago, linking all of the > kernel modules together into one big module saves a substantial amount > of space (all of those dynamic linking tables which reference the same > external symbols for most every module). Do you have a reference for this? Or can you tell me how to do this? I have been searching for that email, but can't find it. John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@icomtek.csir.co.za / jhay@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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