From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Vipin Malik <vmalik@danielind.com>
Cc: mtd@infradead.org
Subject: Re: Unable to mount compressed root f/s because init_mtd() does not r egister block device!
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 17:37:38 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <26275.982949858@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A96A5CF.82BDE33E@danielind.com>
vmalik@danielind.com said:
> Do you have any figures as to how well it compresses vs say gzip -9?
Not wonderfully, especially if you're compressing something other than
MIPS32 executable code. But it's easy enough to plug in new compression
types. gzip would be welcome.
> Do you know why nobody added bzip2 support for compressed root file
> systems? bzip2 does a better job at compression. Size of the code?
scratch space required to decompress
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-22 13:11 Unable to mount compressed root f/s because init_mtd() does n ot r egister block device! Vipin Malik
2001-02-22 13:18 ` David Woodhouse
2001-02-22 19:22 ` Vipin Malik
2001-02-22 19:00 ` David Woodhouse
2001-02-22 20:18 ` Vipin Malik
2001-02-22 21:32 ` Vipin Malik
2001-02-22 21:55 ` David Woodhouse
2001-02-22 22:41 ` Unable to mount compressed root f/s because init_mtd() does not " Vipin Malik
2001-02-23 8:24 ` David Woodhouse
2001-02-23 18:02 ` Vipin Malik
2001-02-23 17:37 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
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2001-02-22 4:19 Vipin Malik
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2001-02-22 20:01 ` Vipin Malik
2001-02-23 8:22 ` David Woodhouse
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