Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Oct 1999 17:04:05 +0200 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: PATCH: bzip2 support for initrd |
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On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 10:34:49AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > This 2.2.13 patch[1] adds bzlib (bzip2) decompression support to the > kernel, in linux/lib/bz, and allows you to compress your initrd images > with bzip2 instead of gzip.
Is this really a good idea? You're not going to be able to decompress the initrd on an 8MB machine if it's bz2'd.
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