[Buildroot] [RFC v4 00/16] Add per-package staging feature

Yann E. MORIN yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Sun Jun 28 21:04:34 UTC 2015


Thomas, Fabio, All,

On 2015-06-28 22:57 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> On Sun, 28 Jun 2015 22:49:12 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> 
> > On 2015-06-28 22:46 +0200, Yann E. MORIN spake thusly:
> > > On 2015-06-28 21:42 +0200, Fabio Porcedda spake thusly:
> > [--SNIP--]
> > > > |  35GB |  99m | master branch
> > > > |  37GB | 100m | patch set             
> > > > | 153GB | 105m | patch set using hard links only for the toolchain sysroot
> > > > | 225GB | 106m | patch set not using hardlinks at all
> > [--SNIP--]
> > >   - the size overhead is huge, a factor 4.4 with hardlinks, 6.5 without
> > >     hardlinks
> > 
> > Oh wait, I read the wrong line...
> > 
> > OK, disregard my comments about the size overhead. It's only 2GiB, i.e.
> > roughly 5%.
> 
> Yes, the size overhead is IMO very reasonable. So do you reconsider the
> general opinion you gave in your previous e-mail?

Yes, all I said about the size overhead, and thus my opinion, is void.

As a conclusion: yes, this is *very* good, and I think we must get that
in the tree. :-)

Sorry for the confusion... :-/

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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