8.0-RELEASE -> -STABLE and size of /

[Daniel O'Connor]

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 
debugging.

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

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