From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 26 16:28:28 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1666F106568B for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:28:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cpghost@cordula.ws) Received: from fw.farid-hajji.net (fw.farid-hajji.net [213.146.115.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D3B68FC22 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:28:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from phenom.cordula.ws (phenom [192.168.254.60]) by fw.farid-hajji.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DD8136D1D; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:28:24 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:28:23 +0200 From: cpghost To: Dimitry Andric Message-ID: <20090826162823.GF11739@phenom.cordula.ws> References: <4A94382A.5080708@stillbilde.net> <4A944612.6010107@netability.ie> <4A945216.4040603@stillbilde.net> <4A94528A.5030609@netability.ie> <4A950054.4080104@andric.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4A950054.4080104@andric.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Our old friend, the small default layout is back... X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:28:28 -0000 On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:28:52AM +0200, Dimitry Andric wrote: > On 2009-08-25 23:07, Nick Hilliard wrote: > > Someone will complain. There's always someone. > > And of course, if you crank the default root fs size to 1 GiB, the > complaints will come that "FreeBSD wastes your disk space". ;) Kids theres days... ;-) But seriously now: as someone using FreeBSD on embedded devices, I'll definitely complain. There's absolutely NO reason a root partition should be that big (in the default install)! Where's the bloat coming from anyway? From debug symbols of *two* kernels (/boot/kernel, and /boot/kernel.old)! Nothing prevents us from moving those debug symbols outside that tree into another partition (e.g. /var). Please keep / minimalistic. Everything else can be worked around nicely; an ever growing root fs (a la Linux?) being the notable exception. Thanks, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/