[PATCH] mke2fs size reduction

Erik Andersen andersen at codepoet.org
Fri Sep 23 09:09:00 UTC 2005


On Thu Sep 22, 2005 at 08:57:52PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Thursday 22 September 2005 15:23, Bernhard Fischer wrote:
> > here (in test_disk() ) is an alleged candidate for
> > {,UN}RESERVE_CONFIG_BUFFER(buf,1024)
> > [snip]
> 
> I'm a little ambivalent about extending use of RESERVE_CONFIG_BUFFER before we 
> nail down a couple issues.
> 
> What platforms is using a lot of stack space on bad?  (And how much is bad?)  
> Busybox has developed a number of dependencies on the Linux kernel, and I 
> don't know of any Linux systems where the stack doesn't grow dynamically.  
> (What, mmu-less variants?)

uClinux (mmu-less) has a fixed sized stack.

 -Erik

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