Re: kernel upgrade to 2.4.20-k7
#include <hallo.h>
* Travis Crump [Sat, Jan 18 2003, 08:43:03PM]:
> Note, selecting kernel-build-2.4.20 instead of kernel-headers-2.4.20-k7
> The following extra packages will be installed:
> kernel-build-2.4.20 kernel-headers-2.4.20
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> kernel-build-2.4.20 kernel-headers-2.4.20
> 0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 30 not upgraded.
> Need to get 5865kB of archives. After unpacking 147MB will be used.
>
>
> So the kernel headers for the 2.4.20 images take up 100MB more space
> than the kernel headers for 2.4.19? 100MB is not insignificant. It
> doesn't even make sense, how does 5865kB unpack to 147MB?
Easily. Look at the sizes:
42300 /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/
We have seven flavors, so sum up to ~240MiB. The major part of this
files is identical in all this flavors, so the files are replaced with
symlinks, and you get about 150MB. Look at this rest - most files are
almost identical except of few strings (configuration constants,
kernel-version strings), so you get phantastic compresion rates with
this data set.
Gruss/Regards,
Eduard.
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