On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no> wrote:
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Thomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org> wrote:
Am 06.09.2012 21:30, schrieb Dave Reisner:
P.S. I'd also like to see us stop shipping compressed modules, but that's another matter all together.
Why? The linux package is huge as it is, and compressing modules decreases its installed size by 100MB IIRC.
I looked into this in the past and intended to suggest the same . If I remember correctly the installed size savings is 80MB, but if you use filesystem level compression the savings is only between 10MB and 40MB (hopefully a future btrfs release will allow us to get numbers with better precision). Also, the package size becomes smaller if the modules are not compressed separately, but I forgot exactly by how much.
Just checked with linux-3.5.3-1-x86_64. gzipped modules --------------- package: 42M installed: 59M uncompressed modules -------------------- package: 30M installed: 142M I prefer the much smaller installed size myself. :)