Our old friend, the small default layout is back...

[Svein Skogen (listmail account)]

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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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