From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mga03.intel.com ([143.182.124.21]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QPoNd-0006Le-5t for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Fri, 27 May 2011 06:10:33 +0200 Received: from azsmga001.ch.intel.com ([10.2.17.19]) by azsmga101.ch.intel.com with ESMTP; 26 May 2011 21:07:24 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.65,278,1304319600"; d="scan'208";a="2716143" Received: from unknown (HELO [10.255.12.184]) ([10.255.12.184]) by azsmga001.ch.intel.com with ESMTP; 26 May 2011 21:07:24 -0700 Message-ID: <4DDF237C.20506@linux.intel.com> Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 21:07:24 -0700 From: Darren Hart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110424 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Eggleton References: <1306443683.5911.1.camel@vorpal.jf.intel.com> <4DDEC006.30701@linux.intel.com> <201105262214.44529.paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <201105262214.44529.paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com> Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org Subject: Re: [RFC 1/2] IMAGE_ROOTFS_SIZE Cleanup X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 04:10:33 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 05/26/2011 02:14 PM, Paul Eggleton wrote: > On Thursday 26 May 2011 22:03:02 Darren Hart wrote: >> Yeah, this wasn't clear to me either. And my question in 2/2 still >> stands - what is the goal of the overhead factor? > > I think the thinking was that the more software you have installed to begin > with the more user data you're likely to need to store. Personally I think it > would be simpler if we just set some additional overhead as an absolute value I had the same thought, so "seconded". -- Darren Hart Intel Open Source Technology Center Yocto Project - Linux Kernel