From eugen@grosbein.net Sat Mar 19 01:54:45 2022 X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B6721A162DD for ; Sat, 19 Mar 2022 01:55:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eugen@grosbein.net) Received: from hz.grosbein.net (hz.grosbein.net [IPv6:2a01:4f8:c2c:26d8::2]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "hz.grosbein.net", Issuer "hz.grosbein.net" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4KL3qZ1S0Mz3kFc; Sat, 19 Mar 2022 01:55:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eugen@grosbein.net) Received: from eg.sd.rdtc.ru (root@eg.sd.rdtc.ru [62.231.161.221] (may be forged)) by hz.grosbein.net (8.16.1/8.16.1) with ESMTPS id 22J1tI1L080336 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT); Sat, 19 Mar 2022 01:55:18 GMT (envelope-from eugen@grosbein.net) X-Envelope-From: eugen@grosbein.net X-Envelope-To: imp@bsdimp.com Received: from [10.58.0.11] (dadvw [10.58.0.11] (may be forged)) by eg.sd.rdtc.ru (8.16.1/8.16.1) with ESMTPS id 22J1sqLO068960 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NOT); Sat, 19 Mar 2022 08:55:17 +0700 (+07) (envelope-from eugen@grosbein.net) Subject: Re: 13.1 mini-memstick installation image size To: Warner Losh References: <72d30fc3-0ce4-51f8-ac7f-1b8eff63f3a9@grosbein.net> Cc: FreeBSD stable , FreeBSD Release Engineering Team From: Eugene Grosbein Message-ID: <373722bf-8f1d-7400-f639-83abdcd9fa10@grosbein.net> Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2022 08:54:45 +0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-stable List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,SHORTCIRCUIT autolearn=disabled version=3.4.2 X-Spam-Report: * -0.0 SHORTCIRCUIT No description available. * -1.0 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on hz.grosbein.net X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4KL3qZ1S0Mz3kFc X-Spamd-Bar: ---- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.00 / 15.00]; REPLY(-4.00)[] X-ThisMailContainsUnwantedMimeParts: N 19.03.2022 3:58, Warner Losh wrote: > On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 8:12 AM 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? > > > Or we could just compress the modules. We've supported loading compressed modules for a long time.... AFAIK, kldload cannot load compressed modules, only loader can. I suppose GEOM_UZIP is more effective solution, and more versatile.