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From: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
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Hi,

On (10/05/16 16:47), Cory Pruce wrote:
>    Could one of you tell me why these compression algo’s were chosen,

zram supports more than that.
https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=146469777105130


>    if they were implemented as a need for zram, and

hm... not all of them (if any at all). lzo, *may be*, was motivated
by "compression/decompression perfromance VS compression ratio", which
is imporatant for zram.


>    what the policy is on porting these to FreeBSD?

no idea.

	-ss