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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>
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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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