Re: CVS commit: src

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 05:25:29AM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> riz@ wrote:
> 
> > Module Name:        src
> > Committed By:       riz
> > Date:               Sun Aug 10 20:04:30 UTC 2014
> > 
> > Modified Files:
> >     src/distrib/newsmips/floppies/ramdisk: Makefile
> >     src/sys/arch/newsmips/conf: INSTALL
> > 
> > Log Message:
> > Bump the ramdisk size; the longer paths on the build cluster are
> > likely enough to put this over the edge.
> > 
> > 
> > To generate a diff of this commit:
> > cvs rdiff -u -r1.31 -r1.32 src/distrib/newsmips/floppies/ramdisk/Makefile
> 
> >> -IMAGESIZE=     2560k
> >> +IMAGESIZE=     2660k
> 
> Note sysinst(8) requires some spare space in /tmp during installation,
> especially on using non-default settings on choosing installation sets etc.
> on ports which don't use tmpfs or mfs during installation.
> (100KB would be enough for this newsmips case though)

It is also useful if there is enough space for sysinst to drop core.
Unless the system has very limited memory (in which case it really won't
run much) then adding a meg or two to the ramdisk size probably doen't
matter.
IIRC it is compressed in the install media.

        David

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