Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 01:18:33 -0500 (EST) From: "W. Desjardins" <bill@carracing.com> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>, Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>, Arjan de Vet <devet@devet.org>, <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG>, <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Patches to Try wrt 'the size of stable /modules increased...' Message-ID: <20011122010624.S53369-100000@mail.carracing.com> In-Reply-To: <p05101008b821e950fa1a@[128.113.24.47]>
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On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 11:14 AM +0200 11/21/01, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > >On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 00:04:29 EST, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > > >> This patch is *ONLY* for stable. I have made no attempt to even > >> look at these makefiles in current, because I needed to be working > >> on stable today (for other reasons), and couldn't afford that much > >> of a detour. > > > >Unfortunately, this approach can often limit the review audience for > >your work. I can't look at stable patches on my CURRENT scratchpad. > > Then again, a quick check of -current shows that the files are different > enough that maybe I should just leave them alone... > Just my ignorant $.02 as I am not a programmer and not sure how to accomplish this, but this is a thought I had... how about an addition in make kernel & buildkernel (or possibly at the beginning of installkernel. eg:"Checking required disk space for update on /dev/????..."), where there is a routine to check diskspace and notify the user of a low disk space problem? This would carry into the future very well and also not leave anything "half built/installed"? This could be extended to check each filesystem to make sure there is enough space everywhere for a new build. Personally, I think a sanity check of the update and disk space requirements are superior and longer lived than just moving something somewhere else to get by for now. like I mentioned, I have no idea on how to do this or whats involded to get it done, it is just a though I had. Thanks, Bill --------------------------------------------------------- Bill Desjardins - bill@carracing.com - (USA) 305.205.8644 http://www.CarRacing.com - Powered by FreeBSD/mod_perl http://www.FreeBSD.org - The Best OS money cant buy! http://www.EtherneXt.com - High-Performance Co-Location To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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