Re: ping on CD would not take up any additional space
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 10:46:14PM -0300, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) wrote:
> ping is not exactly the smallest of the programs (~30K), and I
> really trust d-i team judgement, I was just imagining that if it is
> possible to have ping (which means that space and other things are not a
> problem), we should add it for our users.
There is _no_ reason to exclude ping because of concerns about its size!!
I have just compiled the udebs both without and with ping. Adding ping
makes the busybox binary larger by 1568 BYTES or 800 BYTES depending on the
udeb:
busybox binary size: with ping:
busybox-floppy-udeb/bin/busybox 74404 75972
busybox-udeb/bin/busybox 201228 202028
In the packed udeb, the difference is a whopping 678 bytes or 472 bytes:
.udeb size: with ping:
busybox-floppy-udeb_1.1.3-4_i386.udeb 45920 46598
busybox-udeb_1.1.3-4_i386.udeb 118896 119368
BTW, when the .udeb is put on a CD, the ISO9660 filesystem will always
round up the required space to the next multiple of 2 kBytes. As it
happens, the addition of ping makes no difference at all when this is
considered:
.udeb 2k CD blocks: with ping:
busybox-floppy-udeb_1.1.3-4_i386.udeb 23 23
busybox-udeb_1.1.3-4_i386.udeb 59 59
Cheers,
Richard
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