From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 23 12:14:23 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F421A1065676 for ; Sat, 23 Jan 2010 12:14:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6817B8FC1B for ; Sat, 23 Jan 2010 12:14:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (ppp121-45-156-195.lns6.adl6.internode.on.net [121.45.156.195]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o0NCE67l038279 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:44:06 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:43:49 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <20100122162155.GG3917@e-Gitt.NET> <20100123012328.GA3296@swelter.hanley.stade.co.uk> <20100123114209.GA21457@ei.bzerk.org> In-Reply-To: <20100123114209.GA21457@ei.bzerk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2088545.upQzu0N247"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201001232244.03752.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -1.674 () AWL,BAYES_00,RDNS_DYNAMIC X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Ruben de Groot Subject: Re: 8.0-RELEASE -> -STABLE and size of / X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 12:14:23 -0000 --nextPart2088545.upQzu0N247 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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=20 are multiuser (I would have thought anyway). If they went into /usr then /boot could remain slim. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart2088545.upQzu0N247 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBLWugL5ZPcIHs/zowRAlDUAJ9lH2/sfznnAd2T+U0z6x0jr+dW3QCgnwla X19tviWjqPrxQS8/lN7xSRU= =WEMg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2088545.upQzu0N247--