Re: pxeboot binary is too big on FreeBSD (>640KBytes)

Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com> wrote:
> > Why should pxeboot have ZFS support?
> 
> Well, the feature X can be helpful for recovery purposes. The root
> cause is not the feature X itself, but the size limit. And the
> unfortunate fact, the size limit is not fixed, but depends on the
> system. Therefore there are two options - either to fix the size limit
> or drop option X from default build — at least till the size limit is
> fixed (or support for BIOS will be dropped).

Or just build separate variants.
As Bjoern said Lua is probably the straw breaking the cammel's back
but I think it reasonable to assume that a system that has the resources
to support ZFS does not have an ancient BIOS ?

Thus a non-ZFS version could work for older systems
while those without limitation can use the kitchen-sink version.