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.
[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
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.
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.
-Erik
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