Re: CVS commit: src

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

On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 12:03:39PM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> david@ wrote:
> 
> > > 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.
> 
> I don't think it's so worth in the real world.

I added enough space to i386 (years ago) because the 'file system full'
messages (from failing to drop core) looked like a different problem.

Even on a system with as little as 32MB memory, allocating an extra meg
to the install ramdisk is unlikely to stop the install working.
IIRC the ramdisk is compressed on the install media - so the empty
blocks take almost no space there.

So really there is no reason not to a reasonable amount of free space.

        David

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