Re: issues affecting kfreebsd d-i

[Steven Chamberlain <steven@pyro.eu.org>]

On 22/02/14 15:22, Robert Millan wrote:
> How about moving /usr and /var to tmpfs then? See attachment.

This is not quite ideal;  if you copy /usr and /var from the initrd to
dynamically-sized ramdisks, you end up with two copies of the initial
contents in memory.  That slightly raises the minimum overall memory
requirements, and kfreebsd-i386 systems are often constrained.

If we can get more numbers for disk space before/during/after install,
there be certain subdirectories where a ramdisk is more effective than
for all of /usr and /var.

Or if we can remove some useless udebs this may not be necessary yet.

Regards,
-- 
Steven Chamberlain
steven@pyro.eu.org