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Date:      Fri, 10 Nov 2000 02:39:50 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Silly question
Message-ID:  <20001110023950.A15361@citusc17.usc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200011091920.eA9JKos10894@earth.backplane.com>; from dillon@earth.backplane.com on Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 11:20:50AM -0800
References:  <200011091906.eA9J6Ms10566@earth.backplane.com> <200011091903.MAA43016@harmony.village.org> <200011091911.MAA43086@harmony.village.org> <200011091920.eA9JKos10894@earth.backplane.com>

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On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 11:20:50AM -0800, Matt Dillon wrote:

>     It sounds like it could be made to work.  I don't think we should
>     do it by default because you'd still have to gunzip the kernel to
>     get anything useful out of it when working on crashdumps, but I can
>     see a definite use for a kernel config option to install a compressed
>     kernel.  It's one of those things that would have mattered a few years
>     ago, but isn't much of an issue now and will be even less of one in=
=20
>     the future.

I have a couple of machines with root filesystems that were created
several geological ages ago, and now are continually running out of
space because of general / bloat in the intervening millenia. I forgot
about the ability to compress kernels..this would help me (and perhaps
others)

Kris

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