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From: Tomas M <tomas@slax.org>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: LZMA compression algorithm in Kernel - any chance to allow it?
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:11:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4864F524.2070603@slax.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.10.0806271532150.12725@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Thursday 2008-06-26 22:17, Pavel Machek wrote:
>>> If I (or anybody else) submit LZMA code for inclusion in kernel, would you ACCEPT IT ?? (assuming the code looks nice to you)
>> You need some good reason why lzma should be in kernel... like 'cramfs
>> can use it'...?
> 
> squashfs if at all.
> 

Well anything can use lzma or any other compressions, not only squashfs.
Squashfs is a great example, where you get 30% smaller filesystems compared to gzip.

Tomas M

  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-27 14:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-26  7:56 LZMA compression algorithm in Kernel - any chance to allow it? Tomas M
2008-06-26 12:31 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-06-26 13:37   ` Tomas M
2008-06-26 16:00     ` Stefan Richter
2008-06-26 20:17 ` Pavel Machek
2008-06-27 12:14   ` Tomas M
2008-06-27 12:20     ` Pavel Machek
2008-06-27 13:32   ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-06-27 14:11     ` Tomas M [this message]
2008-06-27 14:15       ` Josh Boyer
2008-07-01  6:37       ` Jan Engelhardt
     [not found] <fa.WuwHJZhCHgER6Pu+gn66zdRwVUg@ifi.uio.no>
2008-06-27  1:58 ` Robert Hancock

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