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

From: Garance A Drosihn (drosih_at_rpi.edu)
Date: 10/20/04

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    Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 13:17:44 -0400
To: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@freebsd.org>, <current@freebsd.org>

    At 5:57 PM +0300 10/20/04, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
    >I think that this is good idea which can be adapted for our
    >6-CURRENT as well. Disk space is so damn cheap today....

    I think it makes sense to do this as the default behavior, and
    then support the stripped-down kernel as the optional behavior.
    There are always going to be some users who need the smallest
    kernel possible, but those people are already making a custom
    kernel so it is fine (IMO) if they also need to customize the
    kernel to obtain a stripped kernel.

    But the people who are happily running with a generic kernel will
    be better off if they have all that debug information readily
    available if any problem does come up. Right now we always waste
    one "debug cycle" when someone gets a core dump, only to realize
    that they can't do anything with it because their kernel has no
    symbol information. 

    -- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu
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