19.03.2022 3:58, Warner Losh wrote: > On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 8:12 AM Eugene Grosbein <eu...@grosbein.net > <mailto:eu...@grosbein.net>> 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? > > > Or we could just compress the modules. We've supported loading compressed > modules for a long time....
AFAIK, kldload cannot load compressed modules, only loader can. I suppose GEOM_UZIP is more effective solution, and more versatile.
