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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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dwmw2




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  reply	other threads:[~2001-02-23 17:38 UTC|newest]

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
     [not found] ` <3A956884.2050504@brocade.com>
2001-02-22 20:01   ` Vipin Malik
2001-02-23  8:22     ` David Woodhouse

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