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

From: jamie rishaw at google mail (mitigator_at_gmail.com)
Date: 10/20/04

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    Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 10:39:16 -0500
To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>

    > 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

    > 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?]

    > 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 .

    In which case, it's your own fault. :-) 

    -- 
jamie rishaw at google mail aka mitigator /@/ gmail dot you-know-what
.. What *wouldnt* Jesus Do? http://WhatWOULDNTJesusDo.com/?u=j2
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