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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--jRHKVT23PllUwdXP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 --jRHKVT23PllUwdXP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjoL0HYACgkQWry0BWjoQKU0TACgmG0ENVSLtM0JuwI6uAXLyIS1 HEAAoOy4ZX9Uqw11yaMUxG31dszQaYYX =9cHW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --jRHKVT23PllUwdXP-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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