Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264601AbTFTUNn (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jun 2003 16:13:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264605AbTFTUNn (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jun 2003 16:13:43 -0400 Received: from smtp-send.myrealbox.com ([192.108.102.143]:15926 "EHLO smtp-send.myrealbox.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264601AbTFTUNl (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jun 2003 16:13:41 -0400 Message-ID: <3EF36E2C.3050906@myrealbox.com> Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 16:27:24 -0400 From: Nicholas Wourms User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 MultiZilla/v1.1.20 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Garzik CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jmorris@intercode.com.au, davem@redhat.com, David Woodhouse Subject: Re: [RFC] Breaking data compatibility with userspace bz2lib References: <20030620185915.GD28711@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <20030620190957.GA19988@gtf.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.75.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 720 Lines: 22 Jeff Garzik wrote: > On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 08:59:15PM +0200, J?rn Engel wrote: > The big question is whether the bzip2 better compression is actually > useful in a kernel context? Patches to do bzip2 for initrd, for > example, have been around for ages: > > http://gtf.org/garzik/kernel/files/initrd-bzip2-2.2.13-2.patch.gz > Not to mention the more current ongoing work by Christian Ludwig for 2.4.2x support at: http://shepard.kicks-ass.net/~cc/ Cheers, Nicholas - 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/