On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 09:09:38PM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I wonder if we really need /usr/share to be over 106MB in 
> FreeBSD-13.1-BETA1-amd64-mini-memstick.img
> increasing its uncompressed size upto 434MB ? Same for bootonly image that is 
> somewhat less
> but it's still pretty large to be used for network booting some hoster's 
> virtual machine, for example.
> 
> Isn't it time to use GEOM_UZIP, move kernel modules to /boot/modules out of 
> /boot/kernel
> and compress /boot/modules (141MB) and /usr (165MB) to reduce size of "mini" 
> installatiom media drastically?
> 

It is a bit too late, IMHO, to investigate this for this release cycle,
however we can look into this moving forward.

Glen

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