From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 26 16:55:24 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 161A1106564A for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:55:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from admin@lissyara.su) Received: from hosting.lissyara.su (hosting.lissyara.su [77.221.149.162]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4AD38FC27 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:55:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [89.178.145.170] (port=36898 helo=HP.lissyara.su) by hosting.lissyara.su with esmtpa (Exim 4.69 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1MgLmL-0002js-Iq; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:55:21 +0400 Message-ID: <4A9568EE.1080704@lissyara.su> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:55:10 +0400 From: Alex Keda User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cpghost 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> In-Reply-To: <20090826162823.GF11739@phenom.cordula.ws> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Description: if spam count > 60 - this is spam X-Spam-Count: 0 X-Descriptions: powered by www.lissyara.su X-Bounce-ID: hosting.lissyara.su Cc: Dimitry Andric , 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 16:55:24 -0000 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