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Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumission policy!

To: David Ford <david@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumission policy!)
From: jamal <hadi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 08:08:12 -0500 (EST)
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>, Chris Wedgwood <cw@xxxxxxxx>, "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>, <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10101072232330.12242-100000@Huntington-Beach.Blue-Labs.org>
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On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, David Ford wrote:

> Distributions should be encouraged to use ip rather than ifconfig/route.  It
> works better and does more, the output is more informative, more concise,
> and less confusing.  It doesn't take that much more disk space than ifconfig
> and route does, ifconfig and route take 74K, ip takes 89K. I don't think 15k
> of disk space is sufficient concern, given that inodes are probably page
> size.

Actually if you count arp which is also part of ip; ip becomes smaller
by about 15K.

cheers,
jamal


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