Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

Mark Lord
2007-11-13T18:54:37Z

Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 01:43:53PM -0500, Mark Lord wrote:
>
>> mkdir t
>> cd t
>> git clone
>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
>> (wait half an hour)
>> /usr/bin/du -s linux-2.6
>> 522732 linux-2.6
>
> You're assuming that everything in linux-2.6 was downloaded; that's
> not true. Everything in linux-2.6/.git was downloaded; but then you do a
> checkout which happens to approximately double the size of the linux-2.6
> directory.
..

Ah, I wondered why it took only half an hour to download.

..
> When you compare it to the 60MB tarballs that are published, it's really
> not that bad.
..

The tarballs I download are only 45MB.

Cheers