Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:28:23 +0200 From: cpghost <cpghost@cordula.ws> To: Dimitry Andric <dimitry@andric.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Our old friend, the small default layout is back... Message-ID: <20090826162823.GF11739@phenom.cordula.ws> In-Reply-To: <4A950054.4080104@andric.com> References: <4A94382A.5080708@stillbilde.net> <4A944612.6010107@netability.ie> <4A945216.4040603@stillbilde.net> <4A94528A.5030609@netability.ie> <4A950054.4080104@andric.com>
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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. Thanks, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/
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