Re: CVS commit: src

[Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>]

david@ wrote:

> > Note sysinst(8) requires some spare space in /tmp during installation,
> > especially on using non-default settings on choosing installation sets etc.
> > on ports which don't use tmpfs or mfs during installation.
> > (100KB would be enough for this newsmips case though)
> 
> It is also useful if there is enough space for sysinst to drop core.

I don't think it's so worth in the real world.

> Unless the system has very limited memory (in which case it really won't
> run much) then adding a meg or two to the ramdisk size probably doen't
> matter.

- no automated method to calculate necessary size to maintain the numbers
- few user will report problems using core
  (it isn't trivial to copy core on ramdisk into other working machines)
- developers usually use /usr/sbin/sysinst binary rather than
  actual install kernels with crunchgen + makefs + mdsetimage + reboot
  (gdb requires target binary and crunched binary is annoying)
- x86 ports already have USB install images without ramdisk and
  they are also useful enough for debug

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Izumi Tsutsui