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| From | Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel |
| Subject | Bug#657707: [initramfs-tools] modules for initrd are not stripped |
| Date | 2019-07-24 15:00 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <ynp29-23i-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | (3 earlier) <iobcR-5FJ-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <ynnjH-1e8-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <ynp29-23i-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <iobcR-5FJ-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <ynp29-23i-3@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | I am not organized |
Cross-posted to 2 groups.
Ben Hutchings, le mer. 24 juil. 2019 13:48:00 +0100, a ecrit: > On Wed, 2019-07-24 at 13:06 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > I'm also hitting disk contraints with almost-100M initrds. > > > > Ben Hutchings, le mar. 05 févr. 2019 01:00:31 +0100, a ecrit: > > > On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 08:34:31 +0100 =?utf-8?q?Micha=C5=82_Miros=C5=82aw?= <mirq-boogs@rere.qmqm.pl> wrote: > > > > Please add an option (possibly defaulted to on) to strip kernel modules and > > > > binaries put in initrd. When using kernel with debugging enables the > > > > unstripped modules are available in /lib/modules. Unneeded copy of the symbols > > > > in initrd image take over 80% of its size. > > > [...] > > > > FTR, plain strip shouldn't be used as such, > > > > strip --strip-unneeded > > > > is needed instead, to avoid breaking loading the modules. > > strip breaks module signatures. Sure, I didn't mean it wouldn't. I just mean that even for people who don't care about signatures, strip shouldn't be used alone, since it'll even break loading the module. Samuel
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Bug#657707: [initramfs-tools] modules for initrd are not stripped Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> - 2019-07-24 13:10 +0200 Bug#657707: [initramfs-tools] modules for initrd are not stripped Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> - 2019-07-24 15:00 +0200 Bug#657707: [initramfs-tools] modules for initrd are not stripped Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2019-07-24 15:00 +0200
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