I tried to install kernel-2.6.29-0.12.rc0.git7.fc11.x86_64. Its rpm package is quite reasonable 24M in size. Only rpm started to complain about insufficient space on /. A check with 'rpm -qip ...' revealed that the package claims to expand to 1035938542 bytes. Around 1 gig! Unpacking this in some other place revealed that indeed lib/modules/2.6.29-0.12.rc0.git7.fc11.x86_64/ eats 997M of disk. Only this is heavily padded with null bytes. With 'cp -a --sparse=always ...' aplied to that tree a target drops in size to 76M. More than a thirteenfold reduction. It is true that the same operation performed on lib/modules/2.6.29-0.9.rc0.git4.fc11.x86_64 reduces that from 188M to 78M, which is still quite a lot, but what 2.6.29-0.12.rc0.git7.fc11 is doing seems to be somewhat excessive. Is this is a side effect of some changes in a build process? Something seems to be a tad pushy. That "module fattening" surely adds a lot of extra time to kernel installation scripts but other than that a kernel for which modules were made sparse boots as any other one. The latest updates caused other serious and so far mysterious breakage, and in particular haldaemon does not run for me anymore, but that does look like a kernel dependent. Michal -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list