Re: speed difference between using hard-linked and modular drives?

[Mike Fedyk]

On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 05:26:50AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
>    From: "Philip Dodd" <[e-mail]>
>    Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 14:15:32 +0100
> 
>    > I think a boot time commandline option is more appropriate
>    > for something like this.
>    
>    In the light of what was said about embedded systems, I'm not really sure a
>    boot time option really is the way to go...
> 
> All the hash tables in question are allocated dynamically,
> we size them at boot time, the memory is not consumed until
> the kernel begins executing.  So a boottime option would be
> just fine.

How much is this code going to affect the kernel image size?