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Date:      Mon, 5 Aug 2002 10:04:51 +0200 (SAT)
From:      John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za>
To:        wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman)
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/release/i386 drivers.conf
Message-ID:  <200208050804.g7584pu63265@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <200207241836.g6OIa5pW056310@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> from Garrett Wollman at "Jul 24, 2002 02:36:05 pm"

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Garrett,

> > We can save some space (I think) by not gziping the individual help
> > files, but leave them unzipped. Then the final gzip of the whole image
> > should be able to do a better job of it. But I doubt if it will give
> > us enough room for nfsclient.ko and msdosfs.ko. :-/ Maybe we should
> > start a third floppy which contains the "lesser used" stuff. No I'm
> > not volunteering. :-)
> 
> As I believe I pointed out several months ago, linking all of the
> kernel modules together into one big module saves a substantial amount
> of space (all of those dynamic linking tables which reference the same
> external symbols for most every module).

Do you have a reference for this? Or can you tell me how to do this?
I have been searching for that email, but can't find it.

John
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John Hay -- John.Hay@icomtek.csir.co.za / jhay@FreeBSD.org

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