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Date:      Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:29:51 +1030
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 8.0-RELEASE -> -STABLE and size of /
Message-ID:  <201001292230.01867.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20100129104624.GA13472@ei.bzerk.org>
References:  <20100122162155.GG3917@e-Gitt.NET> <201001232244.03752.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20100129104624.GA13472@ei.bzerk.org>

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On Fri, 29 Jan 2010, Ruben de Groot wrote:
> > 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.

You don't need debug symbols to boot a kernel, you only need them when=20
debugging.

Since the debugging either happens after the fact (analysing a core) or=20
remotely (and the remote system would have /usr mounted) I don't see=20
that they need to go into /boot.

=2D-=20
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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