On Wed, 2019-07-24 at 13:06 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > I'm also hitting disk contraints with almost-100M initrds. > > Ben Hutchings, le mar. 05 févr. 2019 01:00:31 +0100, a ecrit: > > On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 08:34:31 +0100 =?utf-8?q?Micha=C5=82_Miros=C5=82aw?= <mirq-boogs@rere.qmqm.pl> wrote: > > > Please add an option (possibly defaulted to on) to strip kernel modules and > > > binaries put in initrd. When using kernel with debugging enables the > > > unstripped modules are available in /lib/modules. Unneeded copy of the symbols > > > in initrd image take over 80% of its size. > > [...] > > FTR, plain strip shouldn't be used as such, > > strip --strip-unneeded > > is needed instead, to avoid breaking loading the modules. strip breaks module signatures. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings compatible: Gracefully accepts erroneous data from any source
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