On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Tom Gundersen <t...@jklm.no> wrote:
> This increases compression efficiency, which might be useful on an
> image containing a lot of modules.
>
> For the usecase I have in mind, this reduced the size by about a quarter.
+1 from me, I'd only suggest being explicit about your use case here
in the commit message, as in 1 year you aren't going to remember why
you said this (and everyone else is completely in the dark).
"For large recovery images containing several modules" or something.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tom Gundersen <t...@jklm.no>
> ---
> mkinitcpio | 2 ++
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mkinitcpio b/mkinitcpio
> index 677f608..82e2d25 100755
> --- a/mkinitcpio
> +++ b/mkinitcpio
> @@ -349,6 +349,8 @@ if (( ${#ADDED_MODULES[*]} )); then
> msg "Generating module dependencies"
> install -m644 -t "$BUILDROOT/lib/modules/$KERNELVERSION" \
> "$BASEDIR/lib/modules/$KERNELVERSION"/modules.{builtin,order}
> + # improve overall compression by storing each module uncompressed
> + gunzip -r "$BUILDROOT/lib/modules/$KERNELVERSION"
> depmod -b "$BUILDROOT" "${KERNELVERSION}"
>
> # remove all non-binary module.* files (except devname for on-demand
> module loading)
> --
> 1.7.9
>
