Re: [RFC] CryptoAPI & Compression

Jörn Engel
2005-04-01T15:35:04Z

On Fri, 1 April 2005 16:22:50 +0100, Artem B. Bityuckiy wrote:
>
> Another question, does JFFSx *really* need the peaces of a 4K page to be
> independently uncompressable? It it wouldn't be required, we would achieve
> better compression if we have saved the zstream state. :-) But it is too
> late to change things at least for JFFS2.

Absolutely. You can argue that 4KiB is too small and 8|16|32|64|...
would be much better, yielding in better compression ratio. But
having to read and uncompress the whole file when appending a few
bytes is utter madness.

Jörn

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