Re: Unable to mount compressed root f/s because init_mtd() does not r egister block device!

David Woodhouse
2001-02-23T17:38:06Z

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