From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] split floppy support off biosdisk
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:54:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1213718067.11567.24.camel@dv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ca0f59980806170802l29bc2733j37058897f893e95@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 23:02 +0800, Bean wrote:
> I'm not against other compression algorithm, but lzma seems to be the
> best, for example, for the previous c2.img:
>
> bzip2 c2.img && du -b c2.img.bz2
> 29247 c2.img.bz2
>
> gzip c2.img && du -b c2.img.gz
> 29825 c2.img.gz
We need numbers for all compression algorithms for the code that would
actually be compressed, not the whole image, which includes the
multiboot header, the lzo uncompression implementation and some other
functions.
Anyway, it looks like gzip is doing a good job. By the way, gzip
uncompression is used in Linux kernel on i386.
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-17 15:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-15 17:48 [RFC] split floppy support off biosdisk Robert Millan
2008-06-16 0:32 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-06-16 6:30 ` Bean
2008-06-16 9:15 ` Robert Millan
2008-06-16 11:03 ` Bean
2008-06-16 11:20 ` Javier Martín
2008-06-16 11:47 ` Bean
2008-06-16 12:09 ` Javier Martín
2008-06-16 12:37 ` Bean
2008-06-16 21:31 ` Robert Millan
2008-06-17 2:03 ` Bean
2008-06-17 2:47 ` Javier Martín
2008-06-17 3:06 ` Bean
2008-06-17 14:39 ` Javier Martín
2008-06-17 14:52 ` Bean
2008-06-17 17:23 ` Javier Martín
2008-06-17 17:35 ` Bean
2008-06-18 3:14 ` Javier Martín
2008-06-18 3:49 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-06-18 6:55 ` Bean
2008-06-18 7:36 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-06-18 8:01 ` Bean
2008-06-18 11:29 ` Bean
2008-06-18 17:37 ` Robert Millan
2008-06-18 11:40 ` Javier Martín
2008-06-18 13:12 ` Bean
2008-06-18 13:28 ` Bean
2008-06-18 13:33 ` Javier Martín
2008-06-18 17:32 ` Isaac Dupree
2008-06-18 17:38 ` Robert Millan
2008-06-18 3:48 ` Javier Martín
2008-06-17 15:02 ` Bean
2008-06-17 15:54 ` Pavel Roskin [this message]
2008-06-18 17:53 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2008-06-17 12:22 ` Robert Millan
2008-06-17 12:33 ` Robert Millan
2008-06-17 12:54 ` Robert Millan
2008-06-18 17:52 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2008-06-18 22:15 ` Robert Millan
2008-06-18 23:56 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-06-19 2:14 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2008-06-19 2:37 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-06-19 12:20 ` Robert Millan
2008-06-19 19:22 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-06-16 13:06 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-06-16 14:06 ` Bean
2008-06-16 14:38 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-06-16 21:13 ` Robert Millan
2008-06-16 21:12 ` Robert Millan
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