Closed dimkr closed 4 months ago
Why is the Noble kernel hugely bigger than the Jammy kernel? [kernel-kit-output-usrmerge-ubuntu-jammy-x86_64] 283 MB
[kernel-kit-output-usrmerge-ubuntu-noble-x86_64] 632 MB
Most of the difference comes from kernel sources. (Not surprising, because 5.15.x was released in 2021 and the gap between the kernel versions is very big)
2024-03-10T18:27:49.5438310Z Creating 4.0 filesystem on output/kernel-modules-6.8.0-kernel-kit.sfs, block size 262144.
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2024-03-10T18:28:55.5889574Z Filesystem size 111579.84 Kbytes (108.96 Mbytes)
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2024-03-10T17:39:40.7221652Z Creating 4.0 filesystem on output/kernel-modules-5.15.143-kernel-kit.sfs, block size 262144.
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2024-03-10T17:40:05.4689544Z Filesystem size 92805.79 Kbytes (90.63 Mbytes)
2024-03-10T18:22:04.1272670Z Creating 4.0 filesystem on output/kernel_sources-6.8.0-kernel-kit.sfs, block size
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2024-03-10T18:27:00.8089905Z Filesystem size 347284.12 Kbytes (339.14 Mbytes)
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2024-03-10T17:35:53.9676527Z Creating 4.0 filesystem on output/kernel_sources-5.15.143-kernel-kit.sfs, block size
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2024-03-10T17:39:01.7258090Z Filesystem size 167588.06 Kbytes (163.66 Mbytes)
2024-03-10T18:27:28.2155891Z Creating 4.0 filesystem on output/kbuild-6.8.0.sfs, block size 262144.
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2024-03-10T18:27:48.8386394Z Filesystem size 171042.15 Kbytes (167.03 Mbytes)
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2024-03-10T17:39:15.4612087Z Creating 4.0 filesystem on output/kbuild-5.15.143.sfs, block size 262144.
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2024-03-10T17:39:15.5958437Z Filesystem size 14875.73 Kbytes (14.53 Mbytes)
Has ad1d655 and aa1c548 applied, and forces the traditional
CONFIG_SQUASHFS_COMPILE_DECOMP_MULTI=y