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From: Jörn <joern@...>
To: Rob Landley <rob@...>
Cc: Alain Knaff <alain@...>, Leon Woestenberg <leon.woestenberg@...>, <torvalds@...>, <linux-kernel@...>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] init: bzip2 or lzma -compressed kernels and initrds
Date: Monday, September 8, 2008 - 9:14 am

On Sun, 7 September 2008 01:17:55 -0500, Rob Landley wrote:

Less, actually.  Iirc gzip takes about 280k for compression and
somewhere below 100k for decompression with the kernel runtime zlib.
The various copies that unpack kernels at boottime may be worse - they
are certainly rather old copies of zlib and haven't seen much
maintenance since.

Jörn

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[PATCH] init: bzip2 or lzma -compressed kernels and initrds, Alain Knaff, (Sat Sep 6, 5:19 pm)
Re: [PATCH] init: bzip2 or lzma -compressed kernels and init..., Willy Tarreau, (Sun Sep 7, 1:48 am)
Re: [PATCH] init: bzip2 or lzma -compressed kernels and init..., Rob Landley, (Sun Sep 14, 9:37 pm)
Re: [PATCH] init: bzip2 or lzma -compressed kernels and init..., Frans Meulenbroeks, (Mon Sep 15, 8:46 am)
Re: [PATCH] init: bzip2 or lzma -compressed kernels and init..., Bill Davidsen, (Mon Sep 15, 1:13 pm)
Re: [PATCH] init: bzip2 or lzma -compressed kernels and init..., Steven Noonan, (Mon Sep 15, 1:28 pm)
Re: [PATCH] init: bzip2 or lzma -compressed kernels and init..., Leon Woestenberg, (Fri Sep 26, 2:53 pm)
Re: [PATCH] init: bzip2 or lzma -compressed kernels and init..., Alain Knaff, (Sun Sep 7, 4:59 am)
Re: [PATCH] init: bzip2 or lzma -compressed kernels and init..., H. Peter Anvin, (Sat Sep 6, 11:18 pm)
Re: [PATCH] init: bzip2 or lzma -compressed kernels and init..., Alain Knaff, (Sun Sep 7, 3:39 am)
Re: [PATCH] init: bzip2 or lzma -compressed kernels and init..., Yinghai Lu, (Sun Sep 7, 4:03 am)
Re: [PATCH] init: bzip2 or lzma -compressed kernels and init..., Alain Knaff, (Sun Sep 7, 5:17 am)
Re: [PATCH] init: bzip2 or lzma -compressed kernels and init..., Steven Noonan, (Sun Sep 7, 12:35 am)
Re: [PATCH] init: bzip2 or lzma -compressed kernels and init..., H. Peter Anvin, (Sun Sep 7, 12:46 am)
Re: [PATCH] init: bzip2 or lzma -compressed kernels and init..., Alain Knaff, (Sun Sep 7, 3:40 am)
Re: [PATCH] init: bzip2 or lzma -compressed kernels and init..., H. Peter Anvin, (Sun Sep 7, 12:30 pm)
Re: [PATCH] init: bzip2 or lzma -compressed kernels and init..., Leon Woestenberg, (Sat Sep 6, 6:29 pm)
Re: [PATCH] init: bzip2 or lzma -compressed kernels and init..., Alain Knaff, (Sat Sep 6, 6:59 pm)
Re: [PATCH] init: bzip2 or lzma -compressed kernels and init..., Rob Landley, (Sun Sep 7, 2:17 am)
Re: [PATCH] init: bzip2 or lzma -compressed kernels and init..., Jörn, (Mon Sep 8, 9:14 am)
Re: [PATCH] init: bzip2 or lzma -compressed kernels and init..., H. Peter Anvin, (Mon Sep 8, 4:35 am)