udev-cache: Compress the cache

$DEVCACHE is observed to be 100k uncompressed; compressing it reduces
its size to ~5k. But compress it outside of `tar` so that archival
operation takes as little time as possible, to minimize the risk of
devices being created/removed during execution.

(From OE-Core rev: 571df6ddba1caa6805f7c96cd592eea399c2aee2)

Signed-off-by: Richard Tollerton <rich.tollerton@ni.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

2 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/udev/udev/udev-cache b/meta/recipes-core/udev/udev/udev-cache
index c08cef2eed..ec07f50cc0 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/udev/udev/udev-cache
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/udev/udev/udev-cache
@@ -27,7 +27,8 @@ fi
 if [ "$DEVCACHE" != "" -a -e /dev/shm/udev.cache ]; then
         echo "Populating dev cache"
         (cd /; tar cf "${DEVCACHE_TMP}" dev)
-        mv -f "${DEVCACHE_TMP}" "$DEVCACHE"
+        gzip < "${DEVCACHE_TMP}" > "$DEVCACHE"
+        rm -f "${DEVCACHE_TMP}"
         mv /dev/shm/udev.cache /etc/udev/cache.data
 fi
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/udev/udev/udev-cache.default b/meta/recipes-core/udev/udev/udev-cache.default
index 20933361a9..909ec8784d 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/udev/udev/udev-cache.default
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/udev/udev/udev-cache.default
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Default for /etc/init.d/udev
 
 # Comment this out to disable device cache
-DEVCACHE="/etc/dev.tar"
+DEVCACHE="/etc/dev.tar.gz"
 PROBE_PLATFORM_BUS="yes"