From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264900AbTFTVmp (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jun 2003 17:42:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264899AbTFTVmo (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jun 2003 17:42:44 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:10419 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264893AbTFTVlh (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jun 2003 17:41:37 -0400 Message-ID: <3EF382CF.2020800@pobox.com> Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 17:55:27 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik Organization: none User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021213 Debian/1.2.1-2.bunk X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org CC: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn_Engel?= , David Lang , jmorris@intercode.com.au, davem@redhat.com, David Woodhouse Subject: Re: [RFC] Breaking data compatibility with userspace bzlib References: <20030620194517.GA22732@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <20030620200554.GC22732@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <3EF38248.2070807@pobox.com> In-Reply-To: <3EF38248.2070807@pobox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jeff Garzik wrote: > If you drop that down to 280k with much better compression than zlib, > that's fantastic and useful, and people won't mind the slower algorithm :) Just so people don't misinterpret this, I'm just talking about the _addition_ of bzlib as an option. zlib isn't going anywhere. Jeff