On Sun Feb 20 2011 at 07:19:03 -0800, Paul Goyette wrote: > On Sun, 20 Feb 2011, Jukka Ruohonen wrote: > > >On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 01:45:01AM +1100, matthew green wrote: > >>well, i dunno about others but i've found that the old modules > >>lying around tends to fill up space pretty quickly, but ignoring > >>that problem and looking at recent i386 builds, i see that the > >>MONOLITHIC kernel set is only 440kb larger than GENERIC, yet the > >>modules set is 3500kb. > > > >This is not a real argument for or against. But the above shouldn't affect > >releases, which is after all the goal of any software project. If you track > >current, you are developing, or at least interested in the development, and > >in that case having modules outweight the potential or real space costs, > >IMO. > >You can always delete the modules, like you presumably delete old kernels > >too. > > "...ignoring [the old modules] problem ..." > > A _single_ instance of modules on amd64 occupies > 11MB > > # du -sk dest/amd64/stand/amd64/5.99.46/ > 11404 dest/amd64/stand/amd64/5.99.46/ > # > > That's nearly as much as the total size of a GENERIC kernel (about 13MB > today).
I'll venture a guess that GENERIC doesn't include zfs compiled with -g. -- älä karot toivorikkauttas, kyl rätei ja lumpui piisaa
