Re: 13.1 mini-memstick installation image size

On Fri, Mar 18, 2022, 9:09 PM Tomoaki AOKI <junchoon@dec.sakura.ne.jp>
wrote:

> 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 thought I'd added it years ago by uncomptessing to /tmp and loading it
from there..

Warner

> I suppose GEOM_UZIP is more effective solution, and more versatile.
>
>
> --
> Tomoaki AOKI    <junchoon@dec.sakura.ne.jp>
>