Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 1 Jul 2008 08:37:32 +0200 (CEST) | | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | | Subject | Re: LZMA compression algorithm in Kernel - any chance to allow it? | |
On Friday 2008-06-27 16:11, Tomas M wrote:
>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.
I rather meant "who would still use cramfs", given that squashfs
actually crams more files into the same space.
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