From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 27 5:43: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from alcatraz.iptelecom.net.ua (alcatraz.iptelecom.net.ua [212.9.224.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FCB637B41C for ; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 05:42:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from ipcard.iptcom.net (ipcard.iptcom.net [212.9.224.5]) by alcatraz.iptelecom.net.ua (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA60232; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 15:41:37 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from sobomax@FreeBSD.org) Received: from vega.vega.com (h209.234.dialup.iptcom.net [212.9.234.209]) by ipcard.iptcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA11847; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 15:41:34 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from sobomax@FreeBSD.org) Received: from FreeBSD.org (big_brother.vega.com [192.168.1.1]) by vega.vega.com (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g2RDf3i33475; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 15:41:03 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from sobomax@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <3CA1CC40.8A6CE87A@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 15:42:24 +0200 From: Maxim Sobolev Organization: Vega International Capital X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,uk,ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Hay Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: fixit.flp full again References: <200203270709.g2R79BG37721@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Hay wrote: > > > > A make release breaks because the fixit floppy is too big again. So what > > > can we do to get it smaller? Anybody got any ideas or shall we just choose > > > a random utility and delete it? > > > > I think that we really should move to using new loader(8) feature for > > loading kernels/modules split across several physical medias. See cvs > > logs for src/lib/libstand/splitfs.c for details. > > Uhm, but splitting kernels and modules won't help the fixit floppy? Or > am I missing something? Gmm, yes, it seems that your are entirely correct - in its current form it couldn't be split. We should consider putting fixit files onto a MD disk image instead, which then could be compressed/split across several medias. -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message