On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no> wrote:

This increases compression efficiency, which might be useful on an image containing a lot of modules.

For the usecase I have in mind, this reduced the size by about a quarter. +1 from me, I'd only suggest being explicit about your use case here in the commit message, as in 1 year you aren't going to remember why you said this (and everyone else is completely in the dark).

"For large recovery images containing several modules" or something.

Signed-off-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no> ---  mkinitcpio |    2 ++  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mkinitcpio b/mkinitcpio index 677f608..82e2d25 100755 --- a/mkinitcpio +++ b/mkinitcpio @@ -349,6 +349,8 @@ if (( ${#ADDED_MODULES[*]} )); then     msg "Generating module dependencies"     install -m644 -t "$BUILDROOT/lib/modules/$KERNELVERSION" \         "$BASEDIR/lib/modules/$KERNELVERSION"/modules.{builtin,order} +    # improve overall compression by storing each module uncompressed +    gunzip -r "$BUILDROOT/lib/modules/$KERNELVERSION"     depmod -b "$BUILDROOT" "${KERNELVERSION}"

    # remove all non-binary module.* files (except devname for on-demand module loading) -- 1.7.9