Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2022 14:58:49 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> 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: <CANCZdfokU7zi=D1TMdb0r4smy1fYgj-b_AvVY-HCzBTJ8q6v9g@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <72d30fc3-0ce4-51f8-ac7f-1b8eff63f3a9@grosbein.net> References: <72d30fc3-0ce4-51f8-ac7f-1b8eff63f3a9@grosbein.net>
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--0000000000008024ea05da846a64 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 8:12 AM Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net> 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? > Or we could just compress the modules. We've supported loading compressed modules for a long time.... Warner --0000000000008024ea05da846a64 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr"><div dir=3D"ltr"><br></div><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">= <div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 8:12 AM Eugen= e Grosbein <<a href=3D"mailto:eugen@grosbein.net">eugen@grosbein.net</a>= > wrote:<br></div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px = 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi!<= br> <br> I wonder if we really need /usr/share to be over 106MB in FreeBSD-13.1-BETA= 1-amd64-mini-memstick.img<br> increasing its uncompressed size upto 434MB ? Same for bootonly image that = is somewhat less<br> but it's still pretty large to be used for network booting some hoster&= #39;s virtual machine, for example.<br> <br> Isn't it time to use GEOM_UZIP, move kernel modules to /boot/modules ou= t of /boot/kernel<br> and compress /boot/modules (141MB) and /usr (165MB) to reduce size of "= ;mini" installatiom media drastically?<br></blockquote><div><br></div>= <div>Or we could just compress the modules. We've supported loading com= pressed modules for a long time....</div><div><br></div><div>Warner</div><d= iv>=C2=A0</div></div></div> --0000000000008024ea05da846a64--
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