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Date:      Mon, 4 Oct 2004 16:12:46 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/release/ia64 boot_crunch.conf
Message-ID:  <200410041612.46029.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20041004200747.GA62516@ns1.xcllnt.net>
References:  <200409302034.i8UKYKOq051334@repoman.freebsd.org> <200410041051.09833.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20041004200747.GA62516@ns1.xcllnt.net>

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On Monday 04 October 2004 04:07 pm, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 10:51:09AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> > On Thursday 30 September 2004 04:34 pm, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> > >   Log:
> > >   Trade slattach for gpt. With all the tools to create new file
> > > systems, the tool one needs to partition a disk is more important than
> > > some poor man's network interface.
> >
> > You don't really have to trade anymore as we don't care if the mfsroot
> > grows now.
>
> Doesn't that sentiment make crunching a pointless activity?

Well, there's no reason to go make it huge, per se, but the original reason 
for constraining mfsroot's crunch was that mfsroot.gz had to fit on a single 
1.44 MB floppy and it doesn't have to do that anymore, so it's ok if you just 
want to add a new program and grow the crunch by a few 10k or a few 100k.

-- 
John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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