Date: 20 Feb 2001 17:59:02 +0100 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Luigi Rizzo <luigi@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/picobsd/build Makefile.mfs Message-ID: <xzpitm5gujt.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Luigi Rizzo's message of "Tue, 20 Feb 2001 17:24:17 %2B0100 (CET)" References: <200102201624.RAA43130@info.iet.unipi.it>
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Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it> writes: > > You could write a short Perl script (or C program) that scans a > > directory and generates C code (using only mkdir(2), mknod(2), > > symlink(2) and chown(2)) that recreates the device nodes. I suspect > > the resulting code, when crunched, would consume less space than the > > device nodes themselves. > do you know how much space (bytes) is consumed by one device entry ? One directory entry + one inode. I don't know the actual size of either of these. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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