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Date:      Fri, 18 Mar 2022 14:21:27 +0000
From:      Glen Barber <gjb@freebsd.org>
To:        Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Release Engineering Team <re@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: 13.1 mini-memstick installation image size
Message-ID:  <20220318142127.GT76435@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <72d30fc3-0ce4-51f8-ac7f-1b8eff63f3a9@grosbein.net>

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On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 09:09:38PM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I wonder if we really need /usr/share to be over 106MB in FreeBSD-13.1-BETA1-amd64-mini-memstick.img
> increasing its uncompressed size upto 434MB ? Same for bootonly image that is somewhat less
> but it's still pretty large to be used for network booting some hoster's virtual machine, for example.
> 
> Isn't it time to use GEOM_UZIP, move kernel modules to /boot/modules out of /boot/kernel
> and compress /boot/modules (141MB) and /usr (165MB) to reduce size of "mini" installatiom media drastically?
> 

It is a bit too late, IMHO, to investigate this for this release cycle,
however we can look into this moving forward.

Glen


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