Very large kernel

[Alex de Kruijff]

On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 06:11:53PM +0300, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Mar 2008, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 
> KK> Alex de Kruijff wrote:
> KK> > I noticed that the kernel directory was very large compaired to 6.1. Is
> KK> > this for debugging and can I safely remove the symbols files I want to
> KK> > save some space?
> KK> 
> KK> Yes but if you encounter a panic and need to submit a bug report then you
> KK> will need at least the kernel.debug and whatever modules you are using.
> 
> What about gzipping .symbol files by default?  
> 
> It decreases symbol files size in about 50-60%, so i386 GENERIC kernel 
> directory shrinks from 125m to 74m...

I like this idea. The root is usaly small. In edition they could be
removed from kernel.old when updating by default.
-- 
Alex

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