From: Nicholas Wourms <nwourms@myrealbox.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jmorris@intercode.com.au,
davem@redhat.com, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Breaking data compatibility with userspace bz2lib
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 16:27:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EF36E2C.3050906@myrealbox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20030620190957.GA19988@gtf.org
Jeff Garzik wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 08:59:15PM +0200, J?rn Engel wrote:
> The big question is whether the bzip2 better compression is actually
> useful in a kernel context? Patches to do bzip2 for initrd, for
> example, have been around for ages:
>
> http://gtf.org/garzik/kernel/files/initrd-bzip2-2.2.13-2.patch.gz
>
Not to mention the more current ongoing work by Christian Ludwig for
2.4.2x support at:
http://shepard.kicks-ass.net/~cc/
Cheers,
Nicholas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-20 20:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-20 18:59 [RFC] Breaking data compatibility with userspace bzlib Jörn Engel
2003-06-20 19:09 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-06-20 19:45 ` Jörn Engel
2003-06-20 19:48 ` David Lang
2003-06-20 20:05 ` Jörn Engel
2003-06-20 21:53 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-06-20 21:55 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-06-20 20:27 ` Nicholas Wourms [this message]
2003-06-20 20:51 ` [RFC] Breaking data compatibility with userspace bz2lib Jörn Engel
2003-06-20 21:34 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-06-20 19:45 ` [RFC] Breaking data compatibility with userspace bzlib David S. Miller
2003-06-20 19:56 ` Jörn Engel
2003-06-20 20:23 ` David S. Miller
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