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From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@yandex.ru>
To: Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Hazelton <dhazelton@enter.net>,
	Michael-Luke Jones <mlj28@cam.ac.uk>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	dwmw2@infradead.org, Mark Adler <madler@alumni.caltech.edu>,
	jloup@gzip.org
Subject: Re: JFFS2 using 'private' zlib header (was [RFC] LZO de/compression support - take 6)
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 19:43:35 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <465DA9B7.30700@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a781481a0705300912j4dc7776cjc50707cffd8a0cbf@mail.gmail.com>

Satyam Sharma wrote:
> Hi Artem,
> 
> On 5/30/07, Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@yandex.ru> wrote:
>> Err, and important note is that it also wants this compressed data to be
>> independently uncompressable.
> 
> Hmm, okay.
> 
> But what I meant was that if jffs2's needs are "standard" enough in
> the sense that they could conceivably be required by other users too
> (and this one mentioned by you does appear to be one of those),
> then why not make such hacks (if they are necessary and suitable
> indeed, lets wait for Mark's response) part of zlib itself?

I really not sure - I vaguely remember that zlib just cannot provide this
capability. And what JFFS2 does is not always correct. But again, it was
so long time ago...

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-30 16:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-28 14:34 [RFC] LZO de/compression support - take 6 Nitin Gupta
2007-05-28 14:40 ` Nitin Gupta
2007-05-28 14:49   ` Daniel Hazelton
2007-05-28 15:06     ` Nitin Gupta
2007-05-28 15:43       ` Adrian Bunk
2007-05-28 16:03         ` Nitin Gupta
2007-05-28 17:11           ` Adrian Bunk
2007-05-28 19:59             ` Daniel Hazelton
2007-05-28 20:18             ` Daniel Hazelton
2007-05-28 20:52               ` Daniel Hazelton
2007-05-29  5:55             ` Nitin Gupta
2007-05-29  8:08             ` Michael-Luke Jones
2007-05-29 11:40               ` Adrian Bunk
2007-05-29 12:03                 ` Nitin Gupta
2007-05-29 13:13                   ` Daniel Hazelton
2007-05-29 21:10             ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-29 21:26               ` Adrian Bunk
2007-05-30  5:31                 ` Nitin Gupta
2007-05-30 13:56                   ` Johannes Stezenbach
2007-05-30 14:24                     ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-28 15:30   ` Adrian Bunk
2007-05-28 15:47     ` Nitin Gupta
2007-05-28 15:55       ` Daniel Hazelton
2007-05-28 17:01         ` Adrian Bunk
2007-05-28 19:51           ` Daniel Hazelton
2007-05-28 15:49     ` Daniel Hazelton
2007-05-28 22:57   ` Bret Towe
2007-05-29  5:48     ` Nitin Gupta
2007-05-29 13:09       ` Daniel Hazelton
2007-05-28 22:53 ` Bret Towe
2007-05-28 22:58   ` Bret Towe
2007-05-29  5:58   ` Nitin Gupta
2007-05-29 20:14     ` Daniel Hazelton
2007-05-29 20:33       ` Daniel Hazelton
2007-05-29 21:48         ` Daniel Hazelton
2007-05-29 23:32     ` Daniel Hazelton
2007-05-30  5:19       ` Nitin Gupta
2007-05-29  8:17 ` Makefile question (was [RFC] LZO de/compression support - take 6) Michael-Luke Jones
2007-05-29 10:41   ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-29 10:51     ` Michael-Luke Jones
2007-05-29 11:27       ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-29 13:33         ` JFFS2 using 'private' zlib header " Michael-Luke Jones
2007-05-29 13:43           ` Daniel Hazelton
2007-05-29 15:15             ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-29 16:20               ` Daniel Hazelton
2007-05-30  5:31               ` Mark Adler
2007-05-30 13:05                 ` Daniel Hazelton
2007-05-30 13:30                 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-30 23:02                   ` Mark Adler
2007-05-30 23:26                     ` Daniel Hazelton
2007-06-01  3:06                     ` Daniel Hazelton
2007-06-01 17:24                       ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-30 13:41               ` Artem Bityutskiy
2007-05-30 15:46                 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2007-05-30 16:12                   ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-30 16:43                     ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]
2007-05-29 20:48 ` [RFC] LZO de/compression support - take 6 Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-30  5:54   ` Nitin Gupta
2007-05-30  8:31     ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-30 10:47       ` Nitin Gupta
2007-05-31 12:34 ` Nitin Gupta
2007-05-31 18:21   ` Satyam Sharma

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