> > Right: that's quite a few positive replies regarding something like
> > /proc/config.gz.
> >
> > Anyone prepared to argue against it?
> Yes. Because the
>
> cat .config.in >> zImage
>
> suggestion is even better. It takes no kernel memory and you can yank it off
> the image trivially
This should be a non-issue in my opinion. My team runs a bunch of
production Linux servers at my university job. Here is rpm output
from one of our servers:
rpm -qa:
Base-1.3-4
Kernel-2.0.35-3
Networking-1.0-24
Kerberos-1.0.5-5
Kernel_Static-2.0.36-1
rpm -q Kernel_Static -l:
/boot
/boot/vm2.0.36-1
/boot/vm2.0.36-1.config
/boot/vm2.0.36-1.map
Kernels don't get installed unless they are packed like above. This
doesn't have the advantage of the information being physically stuck
but I'm not sure if I see the advantage to that.
Greg
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