From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from majordomo by infradead.org with local (Exim 3.20 #2) id 14WMAQ-0006HU-00 for mtd-list@infradead.org; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 17:38:06 +0000 Received: from dell-paw-3.cambridge.redhat.com ([195.224.55.237] helo=passion.cambridge.redhat.com) by infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #2) id 14WMAO-0006HO-00 for mtd@infradead.org; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 17:38:05 +0000 From: David Woodhouse In-Reply-To: <3A96A5CF.82BDE33E@danielind.com> References: <3A96A5CF.82BDE33E@danielind.com> <3A9595A4.D98A5CF@danielind.com> <20965.982916696@redhat.com> To: Vipin Malik Cc: mtd@infradead.org Subject: Re: Unable to mount compressed root f/s because init_mtd() does not r egister block device! Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 17:37:38 +0000 Message-ID: <26275.982949858@redhat.com> Sender: owner-mtd@infradead.org List-ID: 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 -- dwmw2 To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe mtd" to majordomo@infradead.org