On Fri, 29 Jan 2010, Ruben de Groot wrote: > > I don't think you need them unless remote debugging and in that > > case you are multiuser (I would have thought anyway). > > > > If they went into /usr then /boot could remain slim. > > But what if you have /usr on a gmirror, glabel, zfs filesystem or any > other device that is not compiled in your kernel? Sure you can build > a custom kernel, but I would expect a lot of questions, frustrations > and footshooting from such a change. > > I think increasing / (again) would be the least painfull.
You don't need debug symbols to boot a kernel, you only need them when debugging. Since the debugging either happens after the fact (analysing a core) or remotely (and the remote system would have /usr mounted) I don't see that they need to go into /boot. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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