village idiot wrote:

> 
> But! Do make a copy of the config file as it is now.
> Make your new one by copying the one you use now.
> You'd be surprised at the amount of stuff you can
> chuck out. You can really make some performance
> improvements by doing this. 

FreeBSD offers the option of compiling the config file into the 
kernel for later extraction:

# This allows you to actually store this configuration file into
# the kernel binary itself, where it may be later read by saying:
#    strings -n 3 /kernel | sed -n 's/^___//p' > MYKERNEL
#
options         INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE     # Include this file in kernel

Kind of useful . . . .