ideas 3

Gary Thorpe gathorpe79 at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 11 17:30:29 PDT 2004


Ed wrote:
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I know that DF is still "under construction", but I would suggest to think 
about strip-ping the system/kernel for a complete release. This should cut 
down the space needed on the disk and in RAM.

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Unfortunately, a lot of the BSDs have utilities that REQUIRE being able 
to extract kernel symbols and/or read the symbol table. E.g. netstat, 
vmstat, etc. Would this prevent stripping of the kernel in Dragonfly? I 
agree that the system executables can be stripped for a release (no 
barriers I can think of).







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