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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Bug reports
Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 15:25:44 +0100
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On Sul, 2006-05-07 at 18:19 -0700, Tom McCabe wrote:
> Bug #1: When rootfs_template is tarred and untarred,
> the files get covered in DOS ^M carriage return
> characters, which causes the scripts MAKEDEV and
> MAKESET to crash.
> 
> Bug #2: When the root disk is mounted and put
> together, it's registered as full at 352 KB, even
> though all the files added up only take up 300 KB.

Probably not a bug - inode blocks and superblock etc all borrow some
plus you use it in 1K chunks of data and then blocks for indirection on
bigger files.

> Bug #3: elkscmd/ash/Makefile generates a hardlink of
> /bin/ash at /bin/sh instead of a softlink, taking up
> extra space.

Hard link is just a directory entry into the inode. Softlink takes a
data block...