Re: [Fwd: What do people think about not installing a stripped /kernel ?]

From: M. Warner Losh (imp_at_bsdimp.com)
Date: 10/20/04

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    Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 10:55:44 -0600 (MDT)
To: mitigator@gmail.com

    In message: <6ff30abd04102008396bb61196@mail.gmail.com>
                jamie rishaw at google mail <mitigator@gmail.com> writes:
    : > However, I'm going going to take exception that it isn't a disk space
    : > issue or that size doesn't matter. Size does matter.
    : >
    : > For a 64MB CF this would be a deal killer,
    :
    : Not if you can turn it off.. which was said in the OP

    Didn't I say exactly this? Is there some need to repeat what I said
    in the first line of my reply?

    : > and that's the size of the
    : > parts we're using now. With our X based systems, these cards are
    : > starting to fill up. In addition, we sometimes deploy new kernels to
    : > the field and 16MB takes a lot longer to upload than 3MB (think really
    : > bad connectivity to many of the remote locations our systems may be
    : > deployed in).
    :
    : [?relevance?]

    Concrete example. Not a theoretical one. This is why it matters.
    People around here tend to not go in for theoretical ones :-)

    : > I also have several machines where / is short on disk space, and I'd
    : > turn it off for them. It is simply too much extra to put on there. I
    : > could repartition these machines, but that's a huge pita and costs way
    : > too much in time and down time to do. The cost here isn't in disk
    : > space, but the hundreds or thousands of dollars of labor and/or
    : > opportunity costs.
    :
    : Sure. If you dont read /usr/src/UPDATING .

    >From UPDATING:
         This file is maintained and copyrighted by M. Warner Losh
         <imp@village.org>. See end of file for further details.

    :-)

    Warner Losh

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