You might have read in the last release announcement of SmartOS, that
- SmartOS ramdisk size has been increased to 350000KiB due to gcc14 debug image size and Intel microcode updates. This may mean more free space in the ramdisk root in stock deployments. If you monitor this, you may need to adjust that monitoring. (OS-8658)
Jup, you read that correctly "increased to 350 MB". I still have some older PIs booted on my Triton Headnodes and Standalone SmartOS hosts:
[root@headnode (de-gt-2) ~]# df -h / /usr
Filesystem Size Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/devices/ramdisk:a 313,28M 295,26M 18,02M 95% /
/devices/pseudo/lofi@1:disk
432,24M 403,84M 28,40M 94% /usr
[root@headnode (de-gt-2) ~]#
They are still smaller.
Researching this I stumbled upon an article from Jonathan Perkin: SmartOS and the global zone from November 2012, which lists all the "special features" of the SmartOS (and therefore Triton) global zone.
I wonder, why there's still no Linux distribution which has adapted this in the meantime...
I know, CoreOS, Flatcar Linux, Talos Linux, etc, BTW.