From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 20 15:39:17 2004 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 604C116A4CE for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 15:39:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0EA943D2F for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 15:39:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mitigator@gmail.com) Received: by mproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 79so429599rnk for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 08:39:16 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=hdefbE/wb7hOBJFvp/NDPetBCCILq7jjCb5ifFBQcD3dGOJkHHshNyXtCzjA8S130zQ6179DKqe/G5yc7Cjsr5qyrnyVexU5VnG5PYTkZZaPOGRIUm/zxBbntCu/oqKyE5JaPdMlAA/qQ61Z3uagl8Vt4qfHHjQzvThUBcTLbTY Received: by 10.38.65.16 with SMTP id n16mr707430rna; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 08:39:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.163.71 with HTTP; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 08:39:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <6ff30abd04102008396bb61196@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 10:39:16 -0500 From: jamie rishaw at google mail To: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <20041020.093211.78703993.imp@bsdimp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <41767CF1.2020005@FreeBSD.org> <6ff30abd04102008163115a32d@mail.gmail.com> <20041020.093211.78703993.imp@bsdimp.com> cc: current@freebsd.org cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Fwd: What do people think about not installing a stripped /kernel ?] X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: jamie rishaw at google mail List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 15:39:17 -0000 > However, I'm going going to take exception that it isn't a disk space > issue or that size doesn't matter. Size does matter. > > For a 64MB CF this would be a deal killer, Not if you can turn it off.. which was said in the OP > and that's the size of the > parts we're using now. With our X based systems, these cards are > starting to fill up. In addition, we sometimes deploy new kernels to > the field and 16MB takes a lot longer to upload than 3MB (think really > bad connectivity to many of the remote locations our systems may be > deployed in). [?relevance?] > I also have several machines where / is short on disk space, and I'd > turn it off for them. It is simply too much extra to put on there. I > could repartition these machines, but that's a huge pita and costs way > too much in time and down time to do. The cost here isn't in disk > space, but the hundreds or thousands of dollars of labor and/or > opportunity costs. Sure. If you dont read /usr/src/UPDATING . In which case, it's your own fault. :-) -- jamie rishaw at google mail aka mitigator /@/ gmail dot you-know-what .. What *wouldnt* Jesus Do? http://WhatWOULDNTJesusDo.com/?u=j2