From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934506AbbI1Rpp (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Sep 2015 13:45:45 -0400 Received: from imap.thunk.org ([74.207.234.97]:47303 "EHLO imap.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754564AbbI1Rpn (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Sep 2015 13:45:43 -0400 Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 13:45:32 -0400 From: "Theodore Ts'o" To: Pavel Machek Cc: Jan Kara , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, LKML , Andrew Morton , Andreas Dilger , Jens Axboe Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Remove ext3 filesystem driver Message-ID: <20150928174532.GA29925@thunk.org> Mail-Followup-To: Theodore Ts'o , Pavel Machek , Jan Kara , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, LKML , Andrew Morton , Andreas Dilger , Jens Axboe References: <1436955987-7305-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.com> <20150927072421.GA23102@xo-6d-61-c0.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150927072421.GA23102@xo-6d-61-c0.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: tytso@thunk.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on imap.thunk.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 09:24:21AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Nice to see sources getting smaller... but how much bigger do the binaries get > for someone only using ext3? The difference in object size between ext3 and ext4 is about 200k. Most of the efforts to use really tiny kernels are looking at kernels way smaller than even ext3, so this isn't something I'm terribly worried about. (That is, they'll be using ext2, or squashfs, or jffs2, etc.) - Ted