On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 10:43:49PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor typed: > 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 > are multiuser (I would have thought anyway). > > If they went into /usr then /boot could remain slim.
But what if you have /usr on a gmirror, glabel, zfs filesystem or any other device that is not compiled in your kernel? Sure you can build a custom kernel, but I would expect a lot of questions, frustrations and footshooting from such a change. I think increasing / (again) would be the least painfull. Ruben _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
