Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:30:56 +0200 From: "Svein Skogen (listmail account)" <svein-listmail@stillbilde.net> To: cpghost <cpghost@cordula.ws> Cc: Dimitry Andric <dimitry@andric.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Our old friend, the small default layout is back... Message-ID: <4A956340.7050600@stillbilde.net> In-Reply-To: <20090826162823.GF11739@phenom.cordula.ws> References: <4A94382A.5080708@stillbilde.net> <4A944612.6010107@netability.ie> <4A945216.4040603@stillbilde.net> <4A94528A.5030609@netability.ie> <4A950054.4080104@andric.com> <20090826162823.GF11739@phenom.cordula.ws>
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cpghost wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:28:52AM +0200, Dimitry Andric wrote:
>> On 2009-08-25 23:07, Nick Hilliard wrote:
>>> Someone will complain. There's always someone.
>> And of course, if you crank the default root fs size to 1 GiB, the
>> complaints will come that "FreeBSD wastes your disk space". ;)
>
> Kids theres days... ;-)
>
> But seriously now: as someone using FreeBSD on embedded devices, I'll
> definitely complain. There's absolutely NO reason a root partition
> should be that big (in the default install)!
>
> Where's the bloat coming from anyway? From debug symbols of *two*
> kernels (/boot/kernel, and /boot/kernel.old)! Nothing prevents us
> from moving those debug symbols outside that tree into another
> partition (e.g. /var).
>
> Please keep / minimalistic. Everything else can be worked around
> nicely; an ever growing root fs (a la Linux?) being the notable
> exception.
I agree to the "keep / minimalistic" train of thought.
How about being able to move /boot to a separate FS?
//Svein
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