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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>
To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
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Subject: Re: [Fwd: What do people think about not installing a stripped
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On 2004-10-20 10:58, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
> In message: <20041020154545.GA15763@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv>
>             Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> writes:
> : That's not just cheap.  It's dirt cheap, if you ask me.  Bearing
> : this in mind, saving a little space in /boot/kernel is hardly worth
> : the effort and the trouble one has to go through in order to locate
> : or compile a debugging kernel when a bug creeps up.
>
> But the time it takes me to resize / to accomidate the larger
> requirements of the kernel will easily swamp the cost of the disk.  It
> usually takes me about 3 hours to do the conversion if all goes well,
> 10 or more if something bad happens during it.  This can easily add up
> to hundreds or thousands of dollars depending on who has to sit around
> waiting.

True.  This is why making this tunable at installworld time is
absolutely necessary.