On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 05:47:48PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
> On Tue Sep 04, 2001 at 02:51:05PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > same thing on powerpc, though i can't explain powerpc i can explain
> > i386.
> >
> > from SMALL_BASE_LIST_i386:
> >
> > sbin/mkreiserfs
> > sbin/reiserfsck
> > sbin/resize_reiserfs
> >
> > reiserfsck is something like 180k, resize_reiserfs is 80, and
> > mkreiserfs is 80. all you need is mkfs, the fsck and resize should be
> > removed.
>
> Yipe! And there we were picking nits from busybox... While the busybox
> nits are probably valid, they are nothing compared to these.
and i am doing all development on powerpc, there are no reiserfsprogs
on powerpc, and thus they are not responsible for my headaches with
the powerpc root disk.
> [andersen@slag gcc-2.95-2.95.4.ds5]$ dpkg -l reiserfsprogs | tail -n1
> ii reiserfsprogs 3.x.0j-6 User-level tools for ReiserFS filesystems
> [andersen@slag gcc-2.95-2.95.4.ds5]$ du -hc /sbin/mkreiserfs /sbin/reiserfsck
>/sbin/resize_reiserfs
> 92k /sbin/mkreiserfs
> 184k /sbin/reiserfsck
> 96k /sbin/resize_reiserfs
> 372k total
yup but again i still need busybox reduction since none of this reiser
stuff is on the powerpc disks, and i still have a problem with space
there.
> It might be nice for people to have a rescue disk that has reiserfsck and
> resize_reiserfs on it, but the boot floppies cannot be all things to all
> people.
exactly, there are much better alternatives for floppy based rescue
systems, tom's root/boot for one.
besides just read -user archives for how useful reiserfsck really is,
you may as well symlink it to mkreiserfs.
> If we really need to include these, I can see a couple options. We could
> switch to cramfs (and the 2.4.x kernels it requires). Or we could switch
> making just a boot floppy which is then used to bootstrap a larger bf system
> image.
that could be complicated...
why again are we not using minix for the root floppy filesystem? its
a bit more space efficient no?
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Ethan Benson
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