On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Tom Gundersen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Thomas Bächler <[email protected]> wrote: >> Am 06.09.2012 21:30, schrieb Dave Reisner: >>> P.S. I'd also like to see us stop shipping compressed modules, but that's >>> another matter all together. >> >> Why? The linux package is huge as it is, and compressing modules >> decreases its installed size by 100MB IIRC. > > I looked into this in the past and intended to suggest the same . If I > remember correctly the installed size savings is 80MB, but if you use > filesystem level compression the savings is only between 10MB and 40MB > (hopefully a future btrfs release will allow us to get numbers with > better precision). Also, the package size becomes smaller if the > modules are not compressed separately, but I forgot exactly by how > much.
Just checked with linux-3.5.3-1-x86_64. gzipped modules --------------- package: 42M installed: 59M uncompressed modules -------------------- package: 30M installed: 142M I prefer the much smaller installed size myself. :)
