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Re: [OT] Re: [patch for 2.6.26 0/7] Architecture Independent Markers
- From: Denys Vlasenko <vda dot linux at googlemail dot com>
- To: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo at elte dot hu>, KOSAKI Motohiro <m-kosaki at ceres dot dti dot ne dot jp>, Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu dot desnoyers at polymtl dot ca>, akpm at linux-foundation dot org, linux-kernel at vger dot kernel dot org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation dot org>, "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche at redhat dot com>, systemtap-ml <systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com>, Jim Keniston <jkenisto at us dot ibm dot com>
- Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 03:43:07 +0200
- Subject: Re: [OT] Re: [patch for 2.6.26 0/7] Architecture Independent Markers
- References: <20080327132057.449831367@polymtl.ca> <20080328101500.GF30863@elte.hu> <47ECF3F9.4040906@redhat.com>
On Friday 28 March 2008 14:34, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> > for heaven's sake, we can have 3 years of _full Linux kernel history_,
> > with all 87875 commits, with full changelog and dependencies and full
> > source code included, packed into a rather tight, 180 MB git repository
> > ...
> >
> > [ and then i havent even begun about the on-disk footprint of this
> > monstrum, after the packages have been installed: an additional 850 MB.
> > Puh-lease ... ]
>
> Thank for Moore's law and all storage engineers, nowadays we can buy
> an 1TB(=1000GB!) HDD with less than $300!(I also surprised...)
> And many other compressed filesystem can be used for saving disk space.
This is not a valid technical reason for creating bloatware.
Bloatware's main problem is not a cost of storing it or
downloading it. The main problem that over time it becomes
an unmaintainable monstrosity nobody is willing to deal with.
I would rather try to find and fix a bug in 2000 lines of C code
than in 200 000 lines.
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vda