What is /boot/kernel/*.symbols?

[Dimitry Andric]

On 2009-07-06 10:41, Dan Naumov wrote:
> atom# uname -a
> FreeBSD atom.localdomain 7.2-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p1 #0: Tue
> Jun  9 18:02:21 UTC 2009
> root at amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
> 
> atom# du -hs /boot/kernel*
> 205M    /boot/kernel

Right, so it's a lot bigger on amd64.  I guess those 64-bit pointers
aren't entirely free. :)

So indeed, on amd64 and possibly some other 'big' architectures (ia64?),
cranking the default root filesystem size to e.g. 1024M would be nice.