Richard W.M. Jones (rjones(a)redhat.com) said:
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 09:16:13AM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 02:11:04PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > (That said, our minimal image is a couple of 100mb still, iirc, so 2mb
> > is not thaaaat much.)
>
> It's basically down to the three big unsolved problems (kernel modules,
> translations, docs) and then several dozen little things like this. If
> getting really small is a priority we need to solve the big problems, but
> chipping away at the little things helps too.
Lots of distros are now gzip- or xz-compressing kernel modules.
That's the reason for the code I just posted elsewhere in this thread.
I believe the issue is not that the kernel modules are uncompressed, it's
that there are so many of them that are completely irrelevant in cloud/virt
scenarios.
Bill