Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:43:49 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org> Subject: Re: 8.0-RELEASE -> -STABLE and size of / Message-ID: <201001232244.03752.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20100123114209.GA21457@ei.bzerk.org> References: <20100122162155.GG3917@e-Gitt.NET> <20100123012328.GA3296@swelter.hanley.stade.co.uk> <20100123114209.GA21457@ei.bzerk.org>
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--nextPart2088545.upQzu0N247 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, Ruben de Groot wrote: > On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 01:23:28AM +0000, Adrian Wontroba typed: > > I concur that the 235 MB size of an amd64 8.0 kernel is a bit of a > > surprise. An i386 kernel is a mere 135 MB. IMO increasing the > > sysinstall default root slice size for at least amd64 would be a > > good thing. > > To be a little more precise: it's not the >kernel< that is so big. > It's all the (mostly not needed) modules and symbol files that fill > up / Maybe they could be put somewhere else.. I don't think you need them unless remote debugging and in that case you=20 are multiuser (I would have thought anyway). If they went into /usr then /boot could remain slim. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart2088545.upQzu0N247 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBLWugL5ZPcIHs/zowRAlDUAJ9lH2/sfznnAd2T+U0z6x0jr+dW3QCgnwla X19tviWjqPrxQS8/lN7xSRU= =WEMg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2088545.upQzu0N247--
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