Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933650Ab3GWQaj (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jul 2013 12:30:39 -0400 Received: from rrcs-98-103-208-26.central.biz.rr.com ([98.103.208.26]:60943 "HELO wolff.to" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S933285Ab3GWQai (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jul 2013 12:30:38 -0400 Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 11:29:13 -0500 From: Bruno Wolff III To: Phillip Lougher Cc: Phillip Lougher , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Squashfs: add LZ4 compression Message-ID: <20130723162913.GA25886@wolff.to> References: <1374459663-15363-1-git-send-email-phillip@squashfs.org.uk> <20130723151009.GA5971@wolff.to> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1466 Lines: 29 On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 17:17:30 +0100, Phillip Lougher wrote: > >In otherwords I don't think it's wise yet to merge LZ4 onto stable, >not until at least there's some positive feedback on the mailing list. > >Thoughts? Maybe some positive feedback? :-) I think it makes sense to tie inclusion in the kernel with inclusion into the stable branch. If this gets into the 3.11 kernel, I'm going to want to get it into Fedora releases that use that kernel. This will initially be Fedora 20 (which will branch from rawhide in a couple of weeks) and will eventually be in Fedora 19 and probably Fedora 18. So I'd like to see it in stable, since I would feel less comfortable using the master branch. If LZ4 support isn't in the kernel I think that there isn't a lot of need for support in Fedora since I don't think many people use it for archiving. It mostly gets used for live images. I'll make sure that LZ4 can be used for them, but I suspect most people will still prefer xz for them. But probably at least some people would prefer faster decompression rather than minimal size. As flash drives get bigger (for the same cost) more people will probably prefer speed over size. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/