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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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<<On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 20:28:02 +0200 (SAT), John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za> said:

> We can save some space (I think) by not gziping the individual help
> files, but leave them unzipped. Then the final gzip of the whole image
> should be able to do a better job of it. But I doubt if it will give
> us enough room for nfsclient.ko and msdosfs.ko. :-/ Maybe we should
> start a third floppy which contains the "lesser used" stuff. No I'm
> not volunteering. :-)

As I believe I pointed out several months ago, linking all of the
kernel modules together into one big module saves a substantial amount
of space (all of those dynamic linking tables which reference the same
external symbols for most every module).

-GAWollman


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