From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
To: Tomas M <tomas@slax.org>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>, Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: LZMA compression algorithm in Kernel - any chance to allow it?
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:15:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1214576139.7698.13.camel@weaponx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4864F524.2070603@slax.org>
On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 16:11 +0200, Tomas M wrote:
> Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> > On Thursday 2008-06-26 22:17, Pavel Machek wrote:
> >>> If I (or anybody else) submit LZMA code for inclusion in kernel, would you ACCEPT IT ?? (assuming the code looks nice to you)
> >> You need some good reason why lzma should be in kernel... like 'cramfs
> >> can use it'...?
> >
> > squashfs if at all.
> >
>
> Well anything can use lzma or any other compressions, not only squashfs.
> Squashfs is a great example, where you get 30% smaller filesystems compared to gzip.
JFFS2 has an framework for having multiple compression algorithms.
Adding LZMA to that wouldn't be difficult either.
josh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-27 14:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-26 7:56 LZMA compression algorithm in Kernel - any chance to allow it? Tomas M
2008-06-26 12:31 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-06-26 13:37 ` Tomas M
2008-06-26 16:00 ` Stefan Richter
2008-06-26 20:17 ` Pavel Machek
2008-06-27 12:14 ` Tomas M
2008-06-27 12:20 ` Pavel Machek
2008-06-27 13:32 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-06-27 14:11 ` Tomas M
2008-06-27 14:15 ` Josh Boyer [this message]
2008-07-01 6:37 ` Jan Engelhardt
[not found] <fa.WuwHJZhCHgER6Pu+gn66zdRwVUg@ifi.uio.no>
2008-06-27 1:58 ` Robert Hancock
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