On 2018-07-04 19:44, Ed Maste wrote: > On 4 July 2018 at 13:18, Sean Bruno <sbr...@freebsd.org> wrote: >> Author: sbruno >> Date: Wed Jul 4 17:18:35 2018 >> New Revision: 335963 >> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/335963 >> >> Log: >> WITHOUT_SERVICESDB: >> >> Add src.conf knob to disable the installation of /var/db/services.db >> >> Default to leaving services.db in place, but allow the removal of the >> file and its creation with a src.conf knob. >> >> This file ends up being 2MB in size. For small systems this is a waste >> of space but its a tradeoff. > > I'm happy to have this knob, but we ought to also see if we can reduce > the size of services.db - it seems quite silly for it to be 2MB. >
I have somewhere a revival of bapt@'s old patch to use NetBSD's cdb to make much smaller .db files. Here is bapt@'s original work: https://people.freebsd.org/~bapt/cdbrw.diff -- Allan Jude
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