Re: E2fsprogs 1.20 released
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 08:22:12PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 08:49:54AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> > > As long as they don't care about needing debugfs, they can probably
> > > save 12k, maybe as much as 15k. How desperate for space are they?
>
> 12-15k is nothing to sneeze at. We really do need the space, esp with
> i18n issues possibly coming in.
OK... so I had a bit more boring meeting time than I expected this
week, which meant had some time to do some fiddling on my laptop....
The e2fsprogs 1.21-WIP-0614 release which I just uploaded has some new
configure options; if you compile it:
configure --enable-elf-shlibs --disable-swapfs --disable-imager --disable-resizer --disable-debugfs '--with-ccopts=-O2 -fomit-frame-pointer'
... the resulting libext2fs.so.2.4 file gets quite a bit smaller. Of
course, it won't support a number of standard ext2 utilities, such as
debugfs, dumpe2fs, etc., but if you only want mke2fs and e2fsck on
your rescue floppy, this is the way to do it!
Before After
84k 68k libext2fs.so.2.4
16k 16k libe2p.so.2.3
20k 20k fsck
24k 24k mke2fs
96k 92k e2fsck.shared
So this will save you 20k.
And this is part of e2fsprogs, so it shouldn't be too much of a
maintenance burden.
Would this be workable for you?
- Ted
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