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Date:      Thu, 21 Oct 2004 07:49:51 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@portaone.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: [Fwd: What do people think about not installing a stripped,/kernel ?]
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1041021074806.10079L-100000@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <41777084.2050504@portaone.com>

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On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Maxim Sobolev wrote:

> C'mon guys, nobody says it should be unconditional. Of course there
> should be an easy, well-documented way to turn it off in situations when
> the space really matters. 

Or maybe to turn it on when it doesn't matter.  Remember that many users
on the upgrade path from earlier 4.x's have 32mb or 64mb root file
systems.  It doesn't take very many 17mb debugging kernels to fill that
up. 

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert@fledge.watson.org      Principal Research Scientist, McAfee Research




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