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Re: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] DTrace
- From: Theodore Tso <tytso at mit dot edu>
- To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche at redhat dot com>
- Cc: ksummit-2008-discuss at lists dot linux-foundation dot org, systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:41:40 -0400
- Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] DTrace
- Bcc: tytso at mit dot edu
- References: <20080630010423.GA7068@redhat.com> <20080630181959.GA7988@mit.edu> <20080630192533.GE21660@redhat.com> <20080630201031.GF7988@mit.edu> <20080630204219.GA6631@redhat.com>
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 04:42:19PM -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> > [...] What about stripping out the text segment of the object
> > files, so you aren't storing the information twice on disk, or
> > compressing the debuginfo files so they take up less room on disk?
>
> This is roughly what the Fedora/RHEL-style separated .ko.debug files
> do, though I don't know if they are that complete. (They'd need a
> copy of the symbol tables, and probably other stuff.)
Do you have a pointer to whatever program is used to generate the
Fedora/RHEL-style separated .ko.debug files?
Thanks, regards,
- Ted