On Sun, 20 Feb 2011, Jukka Ruohonen wrote:
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 01:45:01AM +1100, matthew green wrote:well, i dunno about others but i've found that the old modules lying around tends to fill up space pretty quickly, but ignoring that problem and looking at recent i386 builds, i see that the MONOLITHIC kernel set is only 440kb larger than GENERIC, yet the modules set is 3500kb.This is not a real argument for or against. But the above shouldn't affect releases, which is after all the goal of any software project. If you track current, you are developing, or at least interested in the development, and in that case having modules outweight the potential or real space costs, IMO. You can always delete the modules, like you presumably delete old kernels too.
"...ignoring [the old modules] problem ..."
A _single_ instance of modules on amd64 occupies > 11MB
# du -sk dest/amd64/stand/amd64/5.99.46/
11404 dest/amd64/stand/amd64/5.99.46/
#
That's nearly as much as the total size of a GENERIC kernel (about 13MB
today).
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