On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 05:47:48PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote: > On Tue Sep 04, 2001 at 02:51:05PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > same thing on powerpc, though i can't explain powerpc i can explain > > i386. > > > > from SMALL_BASE_LIST_i386: > > > > sbin/mkreiserfs > > sbin/reiserfsck > > sbin/resize_reiserfs > > > > reiserfsck is something like 180k, resize_reiserfs is 80, and > > mkreiserfs is 80. all you need is mkfs, the fsck and resize should be > > removed. > > Yipe! And there we were picking nits from busybox... While the busybox > nits are probably valid, they are nothing compared to these. and i am doing all development on powerpc, there are no reiserfsprogs on powerpc, and thus they are not responsible for my headaches with the powerpc root disk. > [andersen@slag gcc-2.95-2.95.4.ds5]$ dpkg -l reiserfsprogs | tail -n1 > ii reiserfsprogs 3.x.0j-6 User-level tools for ReiserFS filesystems > [andersen@slag gcc-2.95-2.95.4.ds5]$ du -hc /sbin/mkreiserfs /sbin/reiserfsck /sbin/resize_reiserfs > 92k /sbin/mkreiserfs > 184k /sbin/reiserfsck > 96k /sbin/resize_reiserfs > 372k total yup but again i still need busybox reduction since none of this reiser stuff is on the powerpc disks, and i still have a problem with space there. > It might be nice for people to have a rescue disk that has reiserfsck and > resize_reiserfs on it, but the boot floppies cannot be all things to all > people. exactly, there are much better alternatives for floppy based rescue systems, tom's root/boot for one. besides just read -user archives for how useful reiserfsck really is, you may as well symlink it to mkreiserfs. > If we really need to include these, I can see a couple options. We could > switch to cramfs (and the 2.4.x kernels it requires). Or we could switch > making just a boot floppy which is then used to bootstrap a larger bf system > image. that could be complicated... why again are we not using minix for the root floppy filesystem? its a bit more space efficient no? -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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