13.1 mini-memstick installation image size

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From: Eugene Grosbein <eugen_at_grosbein.net>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2022 14:09:38 UTC

Hi!

I wonder if we really need /usr/share to be over 106MB in FreeBSD-13.1-BETA1-amd64-mini-memstick.img
increasing its uncompressed size upto 434MB ? Same for bootonly image that is somewhat less
but it's still pretty large to be used for network booting some hoster's virtual machine, for example.

Isn't it time to use GEOM_UZIP, move kernel modules to /boot/modules out of /boot/kernel
and compress /boot/modules (141MB) and /usr (165MB) to reduce size of "mini" installatiom media drastically?