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> References: <72d30fc3-0ce4-51f8-ac7f-1b8eff63f3a9@grosbein.net>
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--U6leaJ20qZQc29iB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 09:09:38PM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote: > Hi! >=20 > I wonder if we really need /usr/share to be over 106MB in FreeBSD-13.1-BE= TA1-amd64-mini-memstick.img > increasing its uncompressed size upto 434MB ? Same for bootonly image tha= t is somewhat less > but it's still pretty large to be used for network booting some hoster's = virtual machine, for example. >=20 > 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 "mi= ni" installatiom media drastically? >=20 It is a bit too late, IMHO, to investigate this for this release cycle, however we can look into this moving forward. Glen --U6leaJ20qZQc29iB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEjRJAPC5sqwhs9k2jAxRYpUeP4pMFAmI0lWIACgkQAxRYpUeP 4pNJPQ//YhyAh+ij60cCiyzb+hHuk86iUhWYDqODUJ2pgtfQ5nS1gFwxyV7wli3H jsIelSiccGpEhtDeuKYNy+XhhJzi/XPSjy/mnNwaklKuDVDZ24exUfy+TZfAcGTS ePL+N5z/DyLKWPFcpdUmGocfFWVv2Xzbt+J89UvD3ujxOQHLACD5z/veVl4DJSFd 9eGnet28atSp3xWf2d7DXJEGN0+AdSlLtTHbyiEziTdmS2MWZckqBvjCtVJZR5S0 r6IF5QPi0Xqc/1tb0Eg+TnCjLktVqkMtm0WhhDgI1UKueqwg/1hzyflnfso1jddM UxSnVWbcCSwDRT8UcxCOgmegmPqK4jd8jPJfkRuvO1h040Epm3ytZ46RORWOZk4Z EVOYiNZkmEpgj07vPJFod9RkSZJbXnlnXKyzmtBg/sGJis7PfxyVJOnY5GwlQr/0 DeNtSAjYgFF/l4auydFaU99saJAbEW5u+8l+4x1YFQeBYMirK3BOY38zuaEDxt5t FD8K2eS/UhpZQQDcMpXl3Khn4dZfQp3ypV89XBT/Loruy6Ym/cBRHl9IgUQOTz80 hK1zuHRc3HLVe3P9A/RuXePuL0mvwyGza9ra483OPSE9txKrHbTVlXv6HmzuNvt9 KT1+HFwgdWhTfEM9VEjRoCvNuu1cuD8TKDgA2m0fFynK/q/S+KU= =9o00 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --U6leaJ20qZQc29iB--
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