From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 12 18:04:37 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B548016A41F; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 18:04:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nate@root.org) Received: from www.cryptography.com (li-22.members.linode.com [64.5.53.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AAE243D46; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 18:04:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nate@root.org) Received: from [10.0.0.33] (adsl-67-119-74-222.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net [67.119.74.222]) by www.cryptography.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j8CI4eo5013385 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Mon, 12 Sep 2005 11:04:40 -0700 Message-ID: <4325C332.3060105@root.org> Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 11:04:34 -0700 From: Nate Lawson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: obrien@FreeBSD.org References: <20050911002229.51F4916A471@hub.freebsd.org> <432382BC.5080105@root.org> <20050911022901.GA3090@xor.obsecurity.org> <432397EF.5000409@FreeBSD.org> <4324A5EF.3050803@root.org> <20050911215807.GA96773@xor.obsecurity.org> <4325A5A1.8080804@root.org> <20050912165939.GB94181@dragon.NUXI.org> In-Reply-To: <20050912165939.GB94181@dragon.NUXI.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf kern.post.mk X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 18:04:37 -0000 David O'Brien wrote: > On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 08:58:25AM -0700, Nate Lawson wrote: > >>Kris Kennaway wrote: >> >>>On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 02:47:27PM -0700, Nate Lawson wrote: >>> >>>>Can we put it somewhere other than /? /var/run/kernel? >>> >>>Why? That would use up even more space, in total. >> >>Huh? I mean kernel, *.ko -> /boot/kernel and kernel.debug (or >>kernel.sym once that's fixed) -> /var/crash/kernel/kernel.debug > > > I believe you'll get at least one response that it makes it harder to > keep the straight which symbols match which kernel. One may > 'mv /boot/kernel /boot/kernel.good-fifo' and forget to > 'mv /var/crash/kernel /var/crash/kernel.good-fifo'. By keeping kernel + > symbols in one place this isn't an issue. > > I think a better approach would be to split the kernel into runnable part > and symbols part. The symbols would be bzip2'ed and kept beside the > runnable part. kgdb would grow support to read a bzip2'ed file (using > libbz2.so). Then the space issue wouldn't be such an issue. > This sounds good to me. -- Nate