From owner-freebsd-small Wed Dec 15 15:49:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from ns6.icdc.com (ns6.icdc.com [208.244.152.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D6DA1561F for ; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 15:49:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mghughes18@mailin.icdc.com) Received: from [208.244.157.156] (peco.136.goliath.icdc.com [208.244.157.156]) by ns6.icdc.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id SAA16656; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 18:43:12 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199912152343.SAA16656@ns6.icdc.com> Subject: Re: some picobsd things Date: Wed, 15 Dec 99 18:50:14 -0500 x-sender: mghughes18@mailin.icdc.com x-mailer: Claris Emailer 1.1 From: Michael G Hughes To: "Luigi Rizzo" Cc: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >For #1, it appears that we can save gzipped versions of these files >on the floppy, and the loader is happy to read them without any problem >so i would suggest for post-3.4R the above change to the "stage1" script. >This saves some 15-20KB i think Why not have them processed into a tokenized form? That should save space... If the files remain somewhat constant or infrequently touched that should be no problem, except if they need editing which could be solved easy enough by embedding a token to text converter. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message