On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 11:20:20PM -0700, Michal Jaegermann wrote: > 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. > Hitting up fedora-kernel-list would be helpful. ;-) Any idea which revision this was introduced in? If not, I'll start poking koji. cheers, Kyle -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
