Once upon a time, Brian C. Lane <bcl@xxxxxxxxxx> said: > On Thu, Dec 08, 2022 at 02:17:22PM -0600, Chris Adams wrote: > > One other thing that I noticed a while back that takes up a chunk of > > space is the kernel... it's included inside install.img (in two places > > even, although I assume it's hardlinked?), even though it has to have > > already been loaded before install.img can be read. > > What two places? On rawhide we have one on the iso under /images/pxeboot/ > and another inside the install.img under /usr/lib/modules... There used to be two on the ISO with syslinux (but they were effectively hardlinked, so that didn't matter), didn't realize that'd been reduced. There's also two inside install.img, /boot/vmlinux-<version> and /usr/lib/modules/<version>/vmlinuz. This is what I'm not sure if it's linked, or if the squashfs compression makes it an effective wash, or what; extracting the squashfs does not result in hardlinked files. I know that /boot on an installed system is typically separate, so hard links don't work when installing the kernel, but separate-/boot is not always the case. It'd be nice if the kernel install scripts tried to hard link where possible. > I think I tried removing the kernel from the install.img at one point, > but it ended up being required for FIPS (see > https://github.com/weldr/lorax/issues/1021). Ahh. I think I brought it up (on fedora-devel or maybe anaconda-devel) too, but forgot (and forgot the reason why). I agree that it seems silly that looking at a kernel file that was not used to boot is considered acceptable. -- Chris Adams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
