Re: Dropping edlabel in favour of 'disklabel -i'

[David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

2009/11/28 Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>:
>> i don't think this is a good idea:
>>
>>  Âtext  Âdata   bss   dec   hex filename
>> Â Â9613 Â Â1016 Â Â 600 Â 11229 Â Â2bdd /sbin/edlabel
>> Â 38654 Â Â 904 Â 10120 Â 49678 Â Âc20e /sbin/disklabel
>>
>> one of the reasons edlabel exists was to to be smaller for media.
>
> One possible compromise is to move src/sbin/edlabel to
> src/distrib/utils/edlabel. Most size restriction is around
> initial bootstrap ramdisks to create miniroot.
> (used only on sun2 and sun3?)

I think that is an excellent suggestion.

So, new question - does anyone have any objections to relegating
edlabel to being used in extreme memory constrained install
situations, and not shipped with the normal userland?