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Date:      Sat, 23 Jan 2010 12:24:54 -0500
From:      Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 8.0-RELEASE -> -STABLE and size of /
Message-ID:  <20100123172454.GA68693@pit.databus.com>
In-Reply-To: <201001232244.03752.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
References:  <20100122162155.GG3917@e-Gitt.NET> <20100123012328.GA3296@swelter.hanley.stade.co.uk> <20100123114209.GA21457@ei.bzerk.org> <201001232244.03752.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>

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On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 10:43:49PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, Ruben de Groot wrote:
> > 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 have a stupid question:  Why are modules built and installed for
things that are already included in the kernel?  That would seem
(I haven't looked) to be a simple change that would both speed up
builds and shrink /boot/kernel.

-- 
Barney Wolff         I never met a computer I didn't like.




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