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Subject: Re: [9fans] Install from CD fails
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:47:20 -0500
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> I am curious about this. What has grown so much, the number of
> drivers?.

The binaries keep getting bigger.
Fossil is much bigger than kfs ever was.
It's just little by little.  I don't know for
sure but I doubt the kernel is the actual
problem.

The current floppy contains over 4MB of
root file system (mostly binaries),
compressed very carefully down to
around 700kB.  If I sat down and tweaked
the compression some more I'm sure I
could get the current binaries onto the disk,
but I don't care enough.  Maybe later.

Much of the bloat is from library routines
that don't actually get called in practice
but end up linked into every binary anyway
(like the formatters for %e, %f, and %g).

Shared libraries would help a lot here.
Maybe that should be a summer of code
project, eh, Uriel?

Russ