Hi Dave.
Slim CD bootroot archive after autosize did not appreciably change.
Still around 60Mb.
So, some may ask why we did it. There are good reasons:
1) The benefit of autosizing is that now we don't have to do the sizing
manually, or worry about picking a size which is too small and having to
redo a build because of that.
2) The bootroot is now build in a directory, making its files more
easily accessible and checkpoint-able (zfs snapshot-able) before they
are archived.
3) Dealing with the lofi-mounted bootroot archive in a single finalizer
script makes tracking and cleanup of the archive more straightforward.
Thanks,
Jack
Dave Miner wrote:
>> Note also that the file system into which the bootroot is set no longer
>> sets aside the UFS default of 10% of space for system use only. The
>> entire file system is available to all users. This may lower the
>> ultimate size requirements of the bootroot (the / file system on the
>> live system), depending on applications supported by the live system.
>>
>> Please send any questions to caiman-discuss.
>>
>>
>
> A question which I didn't see covered in the review was what the actual
> size change, if any, is in the root archive on the media. Do you have
> those numbers?
>
> Dave
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