On Tue, 2023-02-14 at 09:40 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
* Adam Williamson:
> On Thu, 2022-12-08 at 07:57 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > * Adam Williamson:
> >
> > > 1. /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive , from glibc-all-langpacks - this is
> > > 224M uncompressed. A quick test just compressing the file with xz on my
> > > system shows it compresses to around 11M, though, so that's probably
> > > all it adds up to after compression (the image is an xz-compressed
> > > squashfs)
> >
> > Isn't the compression block-based? I think it would be interesting to
> > measure the image size with the file removed.
>
> I'll try it tomorrow, it's not too hard.
Have you posted the outcome of the experiment somewhere?
Sorry, after we established I was wrong about the image being loaded
into memory, this became less important so I don't think I went ahead
with it. If you're still interested I can try and find a minute to do
it this week, once we have Rawhide and F38 calmed down after
branching...
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