Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:55:10 +0400 From: Alex Keda <admin@lissyara.su> To: cpghost <cpghost@cordula.ws> Cc: Dimitry Andric <dimitry@andric.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Our old friend, the small default layout is back... Message-ID: <4A9568EE.1080704@lissyara.su> In-Reply-To: <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> <20090826162823.GF11739@phenom.cordula.ws>
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cpghost пишет: > 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. +1
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