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From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
To: david@lang.hm
Cc: Roland <devzero@web.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Compress kernel modules on installation
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 09:27:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090101082746.GA5038@1wt.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0812261354250.10983@asgard.lang.hm>

On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 02:02:37PM -0800, david@lang.hm wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Dec 2008, Roland wrote:
> 
> >what about some "make modules_install_compressed" instead ?
> >
> >as i have run out of diskspace quite often when installing test kernels, i 
> >think we really need a feature like this.
> >
> >i`d also favour the makefile approach.
> >why another kconfig option?
> >
> >jan`s patch looks clean and simple, but i think it`s a little bit 
> >intrusive...
> 
> by default the main kernel is compressed, why should the modules not be 
> compressed by default as well?

I've always compressed my modules for years, and I can say there is *one*
situation where I uncompress them, it's before making an initrd or initramfs,
because compressing an FS with many compressed files leads to a fairly bigger
image than leaving them uncompressed on the compressed FS.

Willy


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-01-01  8:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-26 20:23 [PATCH] Compress kernel modules on installation Roland
2008-12-26 21:09 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-12-26 23:10   ` Roland
2008-12-26 23:28     ` Bill Davidsen
2008-12-26 22:02 ` david
2008-12-26 21:15   ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-12-26 22:28     ` david
2008-12-26 23:23       ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-12-27  0:58         ` david
2009-01-01  8:27   ` Willy Tarreau [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-12-26 23:49 Roland
2008-02-25 21:42 Steve Brokenshire
2008-02-25 22:17 ` Oleg Verych
2008-02-25 22:19   ` Willy Tarreau
2008-02-25 22:32     ` Oleg Verych
2008-02-25 23:21       ` Willy Tarreau
2008-02-25 22:21 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-02-26  9:14   ` Adrian Bunk
2008-02-26 10:22     ` Willy Tarreau
2008-02-26 12:30       ` Adrian Bunk
2008-02-26 13:04         ` Willy Tarreau
2008-02-26 11:28 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-04-01 19:42   ` Steve Brokenshire
2008-12-26 19:30   ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-12-26 19:48     ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-12-26 19:50       ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-12-26 22:57         ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-12-26 23:12           ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-01-18 21:04         ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-01-18 21:09           ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-18 21:15             ` Michael Tokarev
2009-01-18 21:18               ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-01-18 21:25                 ` Michael Tokarev
2009-01-19 20:21           ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-01-20  3:30       ` Steve Brokenshire
2009-01-25 16:51         ` Steve Brokenshire
2009-01-25 18:02           ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-01-26 21:39             ` Steve Brokenshire

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