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List:       fedora-devel-list
Subject:    Re: Small rant: installer environment size
From:       "Brian C. Lane" <bcl () redhat ! com>
Date:       2022-12-09 22:29:19
Message-ID: Y5O2v/cYKhVLaMs/ () ohop ! brianlane ! com
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On Fri, Dec 09, 2022 at 02:38:48PM -0600, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Brian C. Lane <bcl@redhat.com> said:
> > On Thu, Dec 08, 2022 at 02:17:22PM -0600, Chris Adams wrote:
> > > One other thing that I noticed a while back that takes up a chunk of
> > > space is the kernel... it's included inside install.img (in two places
> > > even, although I assume it's hardlinked?), even though it has to have
> > > already been loaded before install.img can be read.
> > 
> > What two places? On rawhide we have one on the iso under /images/pxeboot/
> > and another inside the install.img under /usr/lib/modules...
> 
> There used to be two on the ISO with syslinux (but they were effectively
> hardlinked, so that didn't matter), didn't realize that'd been reduced.
> 
> There's also two inside install.img, /boot/vmlinux-<version> and
> /usr/lib/modules/<version>/vmlinuz.  This is what I'm not sure if it's
> linked, or if the squashfs compression makes it an effective wash, or
> what; extracting the squashfs does not result in hardlinked files.

I checked, it's not hardlinked. I'd hope that squashfs does the right
thing and takes advantage of them being the same.

Brian

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Brian C. Lane (PST8PDT) - weldr.io - lorax - parted - pykickstart
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