Re: 13.1 mini-memstick installation image size

From: Tomoaki AOKI <junchoon_at_dec.sakura.ne.jp>
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2022 03:09:00 UTC 
On Sat, 19 Mar 2022 08:54:45 +0700
Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net> wrote:

> 19.03.2022 3:58, Warner Losh wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 8:12 AM Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net <mailto:eugen@grosbein.net>> wrote:
> > 
> >     Hi!
> > 
> >     I wonder if we really need /usr/share to be over 106MB in FreeBSD-13.1-BETA1-amd64-mini-memstick.img
> >     increasing its uncompressed size upto 434MB ? Same for bootonly image that is somewhat less
> >     but it's still pretty large to be used for network booting some hoster's virtual machine, for example.
> > 
> >     Isn't it time to use GEOM_UZIP, move kernel modules to /boot/modules out of /boot/kernel
> >     and compress /boot/modules (141MB) and /usr (165MB) to reduce size of "mini" installatiom media drastically?
> > 
> > 
> > Or we could just compress the modules. We've supported loading compressed modules for a long time....
> 
> AFAIK, kldload cannot load compressed modules, only loader can.

If so, kldload should support it as loader does.


> I suppose GEOM_UZIP is more effective solution, and more versatile.


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Tomoaki AOKI    <junchoon@dec.sakura.ne.jp>