Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2022 22:05:21 +0100 From: Philipp Ost <pj@smo.de> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pxeboot binary is too big on FreeBSD (>640KBytes) Message-ID: <0c2419e7-925f-7648-865b-86328009cf29@smo.de> In-Reply-To: <16051.1645463921@kaos.jnpr.net> References: <6984fd5d-ae58-11a4-0d21-a8695b0c77f7@selasky.org> <02586EFB-0BB5-46BF-9EE5-28623D20EFD3@me.com> <16051.1645463921@kaos.jnpr.net>
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On 2/21/22 18:18, Simon J. Gerraty wrote: > Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com> wrote: >>> Why should pxeboot have ZFS support? >> >> Well, the feature X can be helpful for recovery purposes. The root >> cause is not the feature X itself, but the size limit. And the >> unfortunate fact, the size limit is not fixed, but depends on the >> system. Therefore there are two options - either to fix the size limit >> or drop option X from default build — at least till the size limit is >> fixed (or support for BIOS will be dropped). > > Or just build separate variants. > As Bjoern said Lua is probably the straw breaking the cammel's back > but I think it reasonable to assume that a system that has the resources > to support ZFS does not have an ancient BIOS ? I have several machines in use which are capable of supporting ZFS just fine and all of these have a BIOS. Just saying. ;-)
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